How secure is your electronic vote?
(CNN) -- In an era when shadowy hackers can snatch secret government files and humble big businesses with seeming ease, it's an unavoidable question as Election Day approaches: When we go to the polls, could our very votes be at risk? According to voting-security experts, the answer can be boiled down to a bit of campaign-speak: There are reasons for concern and there is work to be done but, by and large, we're better off now than we were four years ago. "In general terms, the nation as a whole is moving toward more resilient, more recountable, evidence-based voting systems and that's a good thing," said Pamela Smith, president of the Verified Voting Foundation. "We're better off than we were a couple of election cycles ago by a long shot and we're better off than we were in the last election, too.
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Pamela Smith
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| 0.27077 | "In general terms, the nation as a whole is moving toward more resilient, more recountable, evidence-based voting systems and that's a good thing," said Pamela Smith, ... |
| 0.198075 | "In general terms, the nation as a whole is moving toward more resilient, more recountable, evidence-based voting systems and that's a good thing," said Pamela Smith, president of the Verified Voting Foundation. "We're better off than we were a couple of election cycles ago by a long shot and we're better off than we were in the last election, too. "We're seeing improvement, but we're still seeing immense challenges." |
| 0.180679 | "It's not always the newest, shiniest thing that's the best thing and, in voting, that tends to be particularly true," she said. ... |
| 0.229511 | "The most important thing for voters to keep in mind is that one way to make sure your vote won't count is to not show up," she said. ... |
| 0.228484 | "The most important thing for voters to keep in mind is that one way to make sure your vote won't count is to not show up," she said. "Whatever system is presented to you, avail yourself of it." |
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Avi Rubin
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| -0.0528868 | "If the election is predicted to be a landslide, and then it is, really the problems we're concerned about aren't that big a deal, because everyone knows the election went the way it was supposed to," said Avi Rubin, ... |
| -0.129059 | "Imagine how nervous you would be if the only copy of your term paper was on one disc somewhere," Rubin said. ... |
| -0.134916 | "Imagine how nervous you would be if the only copy of your term paper was on one disc somewhere," Rubin said. "Now, we're talking about a whole bunch of votes sitting on a cartridge somewhere. Even before we worry about tampering, we have to worry about accidental loss." |
| 0 | "It would be a simple, high-school level programming project to do something like this," Rubin said. ... |
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R. Michael Alvarez
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| 0.238513 | "There are security issues associated with both the electronic voting machines that are used in polling places, as well as the ballot reading devices. ... In many cases, those kinds of security vulnerabilities are relatively well known at this point," said Alvarez, ... |
| 0.17719 | "Many of them have been studied, although certainly new ones may arise," he said. ... |
| 0.0712448 | "Many of them have been studied, although certainly new ones may arise," he said. "Over the last four to six years, elections officials throughout the country have tested and really tried to work to better secure those voting systems." |
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