Building the People’s Voting System

Tag: security

Is Security the Problem for E-Voting?

One of the most vexing frequent issues in e-voting debates is the idea of security vulnerabilities. I don’t think that security is *the* problem with actual e-voting systems, but I do think that in-security concerns are a significant problem with the way many people think about how we do e-voting.

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California de-re-de-certification for voting machine use

There’s a pretty regular stream of news about activities in the office of California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, de-certifying or re-certifying voting systems following the results of the state’s top-to-bottom review. Rather than making an up to the minute comment, I thought it would be useful to re-visit what I think is one of the more notable past scenes in the on-going drama.

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Security beyond the Vote

While we’re
trained on how to secure the vote, its worth remembering that security of all
aspects of a digital democracy is imperative.
Here is a briefing from eWeek (a
popular corporate IT trade pub) on the likely top security threats for 2008.

Quoting
their lead-in:

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