Hackers, Public Differ Greatly On E-voting

cweditor writes "Sorry to be touting one of my own Computerworld stories, but I only covered it because I found it so interesting. The Ponemon Institute surveyed 2,933 members of the general public and then 100 DEFCON and Black Hat attendees to get their views on electronic voting. 'The degree of difference was startling,' said director Larry Ponemon. It was the biggest split between 'experts and the public he'd ever found. For example, 83% of the experts said e-voting is less or much less secure against election tampering than paper ballots, compared with just 19% of the general public."

Interesting.....

[boschmorden]

...but were those polled by e-voting machines? :)

have you

[Anonymous Coward]

ever gone to a hacker con? all those kids do is play dance dance revolution. id hardly call them experts

no fair

[pizza_milkshake]

it's obvious that the blackhat people tampered with the results of the poll concerning the tamperability of polls

Well, duh...

[flying_monkies]

This would be the same "general public" that uses Gator to store their passwords and really believe that someone they know would suddenly send them a poorly formatted email message with an executable attachment of a naked Anna Kournakova? Where's the "in other news, the sky is blue and water is wet" post?

Yeah, well, we're smarter...

[thatguywhoiam]

.. and we know the difference between a superficially rigged voting system that looks secure, and one that is a sham. I mean, these people should really get a clOMIGOD a GIRL

[runs away and hides]

Re:I have said it before, and I will say it again

[hpa]

Or, if you're a conspiracy theorist, one can argue that the politicians, especially the incumbents, want to be able to tamper with ballet result.

Either that or they're just dancing around the issue...

Re:I have said it before, and I will say it again

[Smidge204]

To borrow from a certain demotivational poster [despair.com]...

"If you're not part of the solution, there's good money to be made in prolonging the problem."
=Smidge=

Re:Interesting.....

[james_in_denver]

Yes, they were polled using E-voting machines, but the gov't and the black box vendors don't want individuals to know what the rest of the public is thinking.

So they just skewed it a little bit to keep all the sheep happy.

I mean isn't that what gov't is for?....Scare them senseless, then take away the fear....Until their minds are mush and they stop thinking for themselves, and just bask in the hellish blue glare of FoxNews/CNN/MSNBC and

Re:Technology as utopia

[teamhasnoi]

You said it, man.

As a Space Marine currently deep in the bowels of U-A Corp on Mars, I can truly say faith is misplaced in science and technology.

Word.

Re:Imagine that.

[Kyosuke77]

And just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not all out to get you.

Re:Imagine that.

[mailtomomo]

shhhhh, they will hear you ...

Re:Imagine this.

[Hatta]

• Electing federal, state, local, judicial, school board, etc. and voting on publicly proposed propositions and constitutional amendments. We have hundreds of races all on the same ballot.
  
• Having primary elections with different ballots for different parties, with different rules on who can vote in each race across each state.
  
• Permuting the order of candidates listed in a race to eliminate any first-listing bias.
  

...Automated ballot counting in the U.S. is a must. We don't want to wait till 2020 to learn who is on the school board and who is the 53rd district Judge.


Maybe we just need fewer government officials.

Re:Imagine that.

[Jardine]

We had a federal election a couple of months ago in Canada, and it was all paper & pens.

Untrue. My local polling station used pencils rather than pens.