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Brave New Ballot: The Battle to Safeguard Democracy in the Age of Electronic Voting
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Democracy has never been more vulnerable.
The problem is right here in America.
How to Sabotage an Election
Become an election judge and carry a refrigerator magnet in your pocket
Program every fifth vote to automatically record for your candidate
Bury your hacked code
Avi Rubin, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins and a specialist in systems security knows something the rest of us don’t. Maybe we suspected it, maybe we’ve thought it, but we didn’t have proof.
Until now.
The electronic voting machines being used in 37 states are vulnerable to tampering, and because the manufacturers are not required to reveal—even to the government—how they operate, voters will never know if their votes are recorded accurately.
Follow Rubin on his quest to wake America up to the fact that the irregularities in the 2004 elections might not have been accidents; that there are simple solutions that election commissions are willfully ignoring; that if you voted on an electronic machine, there’s a chance you didn’t vote the way you wanted to.
Learn what you can do the next time you vote to make sure that your vote is counted.
Imagine for a moment that you live in a country where nobody is sure how most of the votes are counted, and there’s no reliable record for performing a recount. Imagine that machines count the votes, but nobody knows how they work. Now imagine if somebody found out that the machines were vulnerable to attack, but the agencies that operate them won’t take the steps to make them safe. If you live in America, you don’t need to imagine anything. This is the reality of electronic voting in our country.
Avi Rubin is a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University and a specialist in systems security. He and a team of researchers studied the code that operates the machines now used in 37 states and discovered the following terrifying facts:
The companies hired to test the election equipment for federal certification did not study the code that operates the machines and the election commissions employed no computer security analysts.
All votes are recorded on a single removable card similar to the one in a digital camera. There is no way to determine if the card or the code that operates the machine has been tampered with.
It’s very easy to program a machine to change votes. There’s no way to determine if that has happened.
There were enough irregularities with the electronic voting machines used throughout the 2004 election to make anyone think twice about using them again.
Avi Rubin has testified at Congressional hearings trying to alert the government that it has put our democracy at risk by relying so heavily on voting machines without taking the proper precautions. As he has waged this battle, he has been attacked, undermined, and defamed by a prominent manufacturer. His job has been threatened, but he won’t give up until every citizen understands that at this moment, our democracy hangs in the balance.
There are simple solutions and, before you vote in the next election, Rubin wants you to know your rights. If you don’t know them and you use an electronic voting machine, you may not be voting at all.
The problem is right here in America.
How to Sabotage an Election
Become an election judge and carry a refrigerator magnet in your pocket
Program every fifth vote to automatically record for your candidate
Bury your hacked code
Avi Rubin, a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins and a specialist in systems security knows something the rest of us don’t. Maybe we suspected it, maybe we’ve thought it, but we didn’t have proof.
Until now.
The electronic voting machines being used in 37 states are vulnerable to tampering, and because the manufacturers are not required to reveal—even to the government—how they operate, voters will never know if their votes are recorded accurately.
Follow Rubin on his quest to wake America up to the fact that the irregularities in the 2004 elections might not have been accidents; that there are simple solutions that election commissions are willfully ignoring; that if you voted on an electronic machine, there’s a chance you didn’t vote the way you wanted to.
Learn what you can do the next time you vote to make sure that your vote is counted.
Imagine for a moment that you live in a country where nobody is sure how most of the votes are counted, and there’s no reliable record for performing a recount. Imagine that machines count the votes, but nobody knows how they work. Now imagine if somebody found out that the machines were vulnerable to attack, but the agencies that operate them won’t take the steps to make them safe. If you live in America, you don’t need to imagine anything. This is the reality of electronic voting in our country.
Avi Rubin is a computer scientist at Johns Hopkins University and a specialist in systems security. He and a team of researchers studied the code that operates the machines now used in 37 states and discovered the following terrifying facts:
The companies hired to test the election equipment for federal certification did not study the code that operates the machines and the election commissions employed no computer security analysts.
All votes are recorded on a single removable card similar to the one in a digital camera. There is no way to determine if the card or the code that operates the machine has been tampered with.
It’s very easy to program a machine to change votes. There’s no way to determine if that has happened.
There were enough irregularities with the electronic voting machines used throughout the 2004 election to make anyone think twice about using them again.
Avi Rubin has testified at Congressional hearings trying to alert the government that it has put our democracy at risk by relying so heavily on voting machines without taking the proper precautions. As he has waged this battle, he has been attacked, undermined, and defamed by a prominent manufacturer. His job has been threatened, but he won’t give up until every citizen understands that at this moment, our democracy hangs in the balance.
There are simple solutions and, before you vote in the next election, Rubin wants you to know your rights. If you don’t know them and you use an electronic voting machine, you may not be voting at all.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very engagingly written -- actually couldn't put it down. Great readable writing as well as massively (but painlessly) informative: along the line of Isaac's Storm, or In Thin Air, even though on a topic vital to our democracy. What more can you ask for? Should be required reading for every elected official.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A computer programming professor takes on politicians who are buying voting machines that can easily be tampered with.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very eye-opening book, and a great read to boot. Rubin does not sacrifice his technological background at the expense of making the concepts easy to understand, but he manages to do both in an engaging way. As we've seen recently (in Maryland, at least), electronic voting machines are prone to error with no possibility of conducting a meaningful recount or reconstruction of an election. If this book doesn't convince people why electronic voting machines need a voter-verified paper trail, I don't know what will. I did feel that the book was lacking in terms of proposing concrete actions voters can take right now to protect their votes. At the moment, it's totally in the hands of local officials and lawmakers, since the US Congress did not bring up proposed emergency paper ballot legislation for a vote. I suppose we will see what happens on November 7th. I for one am glad that I'll be voting in Wisconsin, which uses scanned paper ballots.