Another Vote Against E-Voting: It’s Worth it to Hack
Bruce Schneier, whose site describes him as “an internationally renowned security technologist and author” did some off-the-cuff analysis of whether it would be worth it for either major political party to hack an election. The results are scary, even if I don’t agree entirely with his logic.
He points out that, by changing less than one-quarter of a percent of votes in 2002, the Democrats could have taken control of the House. That’s about 164,000 votes spread over 50 states. In other terms, by switching fewer than one in every 250 votes, we’d have a radically different Congress.
Considering, as Schneier says, that the 2002 Congressional candidates raised more than half a billion combined dollars, there’s obviously enough money around to throw at the right programmers.
Read his piece. Then you’ll see why so many people are demanding a voter-verified paper trail.
