Inherent flaws in complex software make electronic voting machines a risky proposition, a researcher from Johns Hopkins University said today at a conference in Washington.
Im not against computers, said Avi Rubin, director of Hopkins Information Security Institute, at the Secure Trusted Operating System Consortium Symposium at George Washington University. I believe in touch-screen voting machines, he said, but he warned that casting and tabulating votes should be done on separate systems because current levels of software assurance are not adequate.