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India's electronic voting machines are vulnerable to attack (umich.edu)
21 points by wglb on May 1, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 7 comments



The point is whether they are less secure than paper ballots. Is it more trivial to tamper with these machines change/destroy valid paper ballots in a similar situation. I think the machines are put in a secure location when they are being use and the time between election and counting


"the time between election and counting" - This is of course quite critical , from what i know of India, in certain parts of the country - ballot stuffing of paper ballots was very prevalent. EVM's at least preclude that possibility.


No, they don't. The clip-on attack can electronically stuff the EVM by rewriting the internal EEPROM, bypassing the EVMs' rate-limiting feature.


Some ideas on how technology can be used to enhance the security and accuracy of elections:

http://blog.reinventdemocracy.org/2004/10/about-electronic-v...


Rop Gonggrijp: "We also made it lie about election results"

http://www.nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-0802/msg0002...


"Such machines have already been abandoned in Ireland, The Netherlands, Germany, Florida and many other places. India should follow suit,".

Interesting. Was this known pre-election in 2009 ?


There are citations for each of those abandonments in the paper:

Ireland: announced April 2009

California: around 2007

Florida: also 2007ish

the Netherlands: 2008

Germany: March 2009

So, it looks like the answer to your question is "in some cases".




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