By Andrew Appel and Susan Greenhalgh The accuracy of a voting machine is dependent on the software that runs it. If that software is corrupted or hacked, it can misreport the votes. There is a common assumption that we can check the legitimacy of the software that is installed by checking a “hash code” and […]
Search Results for: voting
Voting Machine Hashcode Testing: Unsurprisingly insecure, and surprisingly insecure
March 5, 2021 by
ESS voting machine company sends threats
January 11, 2021 by
For over 15 years, election security experts and election integrity advocates have been communicating to their state and local election officials the dangers of touch-screen voting machines. The danger is simple: if fraudulent software is installed in the voting machine, it can steal votes in a way that a recount wouldn’t be able to detect […]
Voting by mail in NJ 2020
September 12, 2020 by
For hundreds of years, New Jersey voters have voted in their local precinct polling places (800 registered voters per precinct), with only a tiny percentage voting absentee. This year, for reasons of public health in the pandemic, all voters will receive a mail-in ballot; a few polling places will be open on November 3rd for […]
NJ agrees No Internet voting in July, vague about November
June 20, 2020 by
A formal settlement agreement has been submitted to the NJ Superior Court regarding online ballot access in the 2020 elections. On May 4, 2020, New Jersey’s Division of Elections was caught trying to adopt vote-by-Internet on the stealth, even though the law forbids it. That is, not only is Internet voting inherently insecurable, there’s a […]
Democracy Live internet voting: unsurprisingly insecure, and surprisingly insecure
June 8, 2020 by
The OmniBallot internet voting system from Democracy Live finds surprising new ways to be insecure, in addition to the usual (severe, fatal) insecurities common to all internet voting systems. There’s a very clear scientific consensus that “the Internet should not be used for the return of marked ballots” because “no known technology guarantees the secrecy, security, and […]
