Electronic voting pitfalls, safeguards

A Purdue University computer security expert says electronic voting includes the risk of fraud or computer malfunction that could cause voters to be skeptical of the results.

Measures can be taken, however, to protect the integrity of electronic voting, says Eugene H. Spafford, the executive director of Purdue's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security.
A Purdue University computer security expert says electronic voting includes the risk of fraud or computer malfunction that could cause voters to be skeptical of the results.

Measures can be taken, however, to protect the integrity of electronic voting, says Eugene H. Spafford, the executive director of Purdue's Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security.

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• voting
• ballot
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• safeguards
• fraud
• computer
• malfunction
• technology

[vingy12556]

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[NaturalLogorithm]

I don't understand why there isn't a paper copy. It'd be so easy to have a print out placed into a box next to the computer.