Rop Gonggrijp is someone always worth keeping an eye on. He was instrumental in revealing the problems with the Nedap voting machines used in Ireland and the Netherlands.
How he’s part of a team who have publicly demonstrated serious security flaws with India’s electronic voting machines. Time and time again India has been cited as a good example – but the reality was their systems lacked independent scrutiny. Now that expert scrutiny has been brought to bear, problems have been found.
How many more countries have to make the expensive mistake of rolling out e-voting before we all learn that computers and voting are just not well suited for each other.
Read more, and watch the great video at http://www.indiaevm.org
Rop’s post explaining some of the back story
VeTA – a new group campaigning against India’s e-voting, welcome!
(via Ed Felten’s Freedom to Tinker)
Jason Kitcat 