After finding security weaknesses in two ballot-marking devices at this year’s DEF CON Voting Village, researchers are calling for “more comprehensive studies” of equipment that is increasingly a part of the voter experience. The findings come as states consider the security advantages of election systems that create a paper trail. Ballot-marking devices, or BMDs for short, allow voters to mark their choices on a screen and then print them out. The paper ballots are then counted by hand or scanned by a separate machine. “The security implications of ballot marking devices should be studied more,” researchers said in the 2019 Voting Village report, which sums up more than two days of hacking and tinkering at a Las Vegas casino in August. “Current and proposed next-generation ballot marking devices have not been designed with security considerations in mind,” they argued. The researchers say that data stored by the two BMDs they studied could […]
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