I read with great trepiation the continued near criminal negligence of Diebold and other EVM vendors in the design of their voting machines meant for public elections. The recent report by Princeton University Professor Ed Felten , of demonstrated ease of successfully and covertly tampering with a Diebold Voting Machine and the vote count should send a shock wave through the spine of any one interested in fraud-free election system and the advancement of democracy.
This event, while it provides more fuell for the sensationalists, amidst the glaring incompetence of Diebold (which by the way has been mired in every electronic voting machine controversy since 2003), should draw strategist and policy makers closer to the fundamental issue in electronic voting and other application of computer systems for improved productivity: "Is Security a fundamental goal of the design?"
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