I received my copy of
Avi Rubin's
Brave New Ballot the other day and am just starting it - I'll have a recap of it as soon as I can finish it. (Along with a long list of other books. I should post them all....hmmm....)
The critics of Electronic Voting are beginning to gain a voice. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has published another op-ed in
Rolling Stone -
Will The Next Election Be Hacked? - in which he talks about Chris Hood, an ex-Diebold emploee:
Diebold employees altered software in some 5,000 machines in DeKalb and Fulton counties - the state's largest Democratic strongholds. To avoid detection, Hood and others on his team entered warehouses early in the morning. "We went in at 7:30 a.m. and were out by 11," Hood says. "There was a universal key to unlock the machines, and it's easy to get access. The machines in the warehouses were unlocked. We had control of everything. The state gave us the keys to the castle, so to speak, and they stayed out of our way." Hood personally patched fifty-six machines and witnessed the patch being applied to more than 1,200 others.
And now, Maryland Governor Rober Erlich, at the urging of Avi Rubin, has called for a
return to paper ballots.
"I'm not sure we can afford another experiment," Ehrlich said after the Board of Public Works hearing. "I want to play it safe."
