E-voting security result 'awful,' says Ohio secretary of state

ACM TechNews excerpted an article describing how Ohio voters who do not trust touch-screen systems will be given the option of a paper ballot. This action follows largely from the results of Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner's Evaluation & Validation of Election-Related Equipment, Standards, & Testing (EVEREST) analysis. The analysis uncovered "critical security failures" in every system evaluated by teams of both corporate and academic computer scientists and security specialists.

Brunner said that the results of the test exceeded her worst expectations.

"When I finally saw the results of our [EVEREST] tests, I thought I was going to throw up," she says. "I didn't think it would be that bad. And it was--it was awful."

See full article in COMPUTERWORLD.