Archive for the ‘voting’ Category

Canadian election fraud

Sunday, February 26th, 2012

voting logoThis is an interesting news post on a socio-technical hack on elections. The simple idea: call voter, claim to be the other party and annoy the hell out of the voter. Would this work? Not for all, probably. But I’m sure it would work in some cases.

It’s funny — part of my work is understanding and improving a small part of security in voting, realising full well there are other concerns beyond this small part. Every once in a while, reality rears its head and shows just what is happening beyond the small part…

2004 voting “irregularities” in Ohio

Tuesday, July 26th, 2011

voting logoIn 2004, something was weird about the Us presidential elections in Ohio. Now, more and more is coming to light. See the full story here.

A comic on voting machines

Friday, January 21st, 2011

The other day I referred you to XKCD, a web comic I happen to enjoy occasionally. Sometimes, I enjoy myself while browsing through the archives. I don’t know if I mentioned this before, but I came across this strip on voting machines, which says so much about what is/was wrong on the commercial side of e-voting.

Enjoy.