Youtube hacking democracy

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But are they reliable? Are they safe from tampering? From a current congressional hearing to persistent media reports that suggest misuse of data and even outright fraud, concerns over the integrity of electronic voting are growing by the day. And if the voting process is not secure, neither is America's democracy. The timely, cautionary documentary Hacking Democracy exposes gaping holes in the security of America's electronic voting system.

In the presidential election, an electronic voting machine recorded minus 16, votes for Al Gore in Volusia County, Fla. While fraud was never proven, the faulty tally alerted computer scientists, politicians and everyday citizens to the very real possibility of computer hacking during elections. In , Seattle grandmother and writer Bev Harris asked officials in her county why they had acquired electronic touch screen systems for their elections.

Unsatisfied with their explanation, she set out to learn about electronic voting machines on her own. In the course of her research, which unearthed hundreds of reported incidents of mishandled voting information, Harris stumbled across an "online library" of the Diebold Corporation, discovering a treasure trove of information about the inner-workings of the company's voting system.

Harris brought this proprietary "secret" information to computer security expert Dr. Avi Rubin of Johns Hopkins University, who determined that the software lacked the necessary security features to prevent tampering. Her subsequent investigation took her from the trash cans of Texas to the secretary of state of California and finally to Florida, where a "mini-election" to test the vulnerability of the memory cards used in electronic voting produced alarming results.

As the scope of her mission grew, Harris drew on the expertise of other computer science experts, politicians and activists, among them: Andy Stephenson, candidate for secretary of state in Washington state; Susan Bernecker, Republican candidate in New Orleans; Kathleen Wynne, an activist from Cleveland; Dr.

Herbert Thompson, chief security strategist, Security Innovation, Inc. Sure, there have been version updates and extensions and localizations, etc. Definitely surfaced again in !

Curious string of circumstances there: this SoS of Colorado, Jena, pushed for the adoption of BallotTrax from i3logix. The fellow with them was David Moreno, previously with Dominion although that time is difficult to pinpoint, it appears to ??? Ballot tracking and election management systems Dominion Voting Systems are a bit different, but generally in the same industry, I guess?!

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