by Robert McMillan, IDG News Service
This year, the U.S. will pick a new president using electronic voting machines that can be hacked, security experts said
Thursday at the RSA [Security] Conference in San Francisco.
As the November election approaches, the question before officials is not how to fix known bugs in their e-voting
systems, but rather, how best to check them for fraud, said David Wagner, an associate professor with the University of
California, Berkeley's computer science department.
Wagner was part of the team that audited California's voting systems during the state's review of electronic voting, and
the problems his team found affect counties across the U.S. "The three systems we looked at are three of the most widely
used around the nation," he said during an e-voting panel discussion at the show. "They're going to be using them in the
2008 elections; they're still going to have the same vulnerabilities we found."
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