More calls to Vet Voting Machines
A recent report showed that the touch-screen voting machines could be vulnerable to hackers spurred the National Association of Secretaries of State, a majority of whose members in their countries’ elections to determine whether the standards for the machines should be beefed up to prevent tampering .Voting machine standards were not on the agenda of the Association of the annual meeting at the end of July in Portland, Maine. But after the study (PDF) of the Johns Hopkins University researchers has been publicly released, the group discussed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, NIST, the government standards-setting organization, to prepare a White Paper on safety standards for the new Generation of computerized voting machines.
No decision was taken, said Kay Albowicz, a representative for the Washington, DC, group. NIST, a nonregulatory agency, based in Gaithersburg, Maryland, works with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements and standards.
Computer scientists have raised concerns about the security of computerized voting machines for the past few years, but they have not been able to gather much support from elections officials, remains confident that the systems are basically secure from tampering and Breakdowns. The Johns Hopkins study is the first piece of evidence that current touch-screen technology could seriously wrong.
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