I am glad to see my own government took the possibility of tampering with voting devices a little more seriously, but only a little. Late november, we had elections over here (in The Netherlands) and it stirred up a lot of controversy.
An organisation acquired a vote-machine, reverse engineered the software running on it and IIRC also showed the code could be tampered with and injected back into the machine. But even without doing so, they showed it is possible to find out what someone voted simply by using a little radio. Apparently, the machines emitted an RF field that changes when buttons are pressed. How about that for keeping your vote a secret!
As a result, many cities did not use the machine in question, although other ones were - strangely - still considered safe. I mean, the proof of principle was right there. Just because the other machine was not reverse engineered, doesnt mean it's not possible.
The organisation trying to expose the insecurity of vote-machine responded by organizing bustrips to cities which still used the good old paper and pencils.
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I am glad to see my own government took the possibility of tampering with voting devices a little more seriously, but only a little. Late november, we had elections over here (in The Netherlands) and it stirred up a lot of controversy. An organisation acquired a vote-machine, reverse engineered the software running on it and IIRC also showed the code could be tampered with and injected back into the machine. But even without doing so, they showed it is possible to find out what someone voted simply by using a little radio. Apparently, the machines emitted an RF field that changes when buttons are pressed. How about that for keeping your vote a secret! As a result, many cities did not use the machine in question, although other ones were - strangely - still considered safe. I mean, the proof of principle was right there. Just because the other machine was not reverse engineered, doesnt mean it's not possible. The organisation trying to expose the insecurity of vote-machine responded by organizing bustrips to cities which still used the good old paper and pencils.