Rift Caused By Malfunctioning Voting Machines

By Lashan Clarke

There has been a rift that continues to widen between security scientists, and manufacturers of voting machines. The rift has been widening to the point that many at the RSA Security Conference was calling on both industries to consider a “truce”.

Numerous flaws have been found in the softwared used in electronic voting machines, and this has caused researchers in the security sector to distrust them. However, voting machine manufacturers insist that their machines are completely secure.

As a result as security researchers find new security flaws or holes within voting machines systems, they are met with hostility from the voting machine manufacturers. The problem with voting machines is that it does not allow an audit of the results. This has resulted in problems in elections in the past.