E-Voting Terminals Face Super Tuesday Test

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E-Voting Terminals Face Super Tuesday Test

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Maryland's sleek new voting machines will be swathed in tamper-proof tape during Tuesday's primary election, but that won't make computer scientist Avi Rubin any more confident in the outcome.

State election officials decided to wrap their $55 million touch-screen systems in tamper tape and keep an eye out for suspicious behavior after a panel of experts said they were vulnerable to a variety of hacking techniques.

But Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University professor who has volunteered as an election judge, says the tape won't catch any software flaws that could affect the tallies.

"Wrapping them in tape just protects that malicious code physically," said Rubin, who discovered several flaws in election-system software last summer.

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E-Voting Terminals Face Super Tuesday Test