David Pogue’s weekly column in the NYTimes recaps his coverage of electronic voting systems with insights into hacking voting systems, old and new:
The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > From the Desk of David Pogue: Putting E-Voting to Rest:
The problem, of course, is that many states have already spent millions of dollars on self-contained touchscreen machines with no paper trail and no “op-scan” ballots. The states are not about to throw out all that equipment.
When I made this point to one of my correspondents, he wrote back: “A few million dollars? So what? We’re spending $5 billion a MONTH trying to build a democracy in Iraq. Why not spend a tiny fraction of that to ensure a working democracy at home?”
So what is verifiable democracy worth?