Is it possible to build a secure e-voting machine?
Rubin: One of the biggest problems with electronic voting doesn’t have anything to do with whether they’re secure, it’s whether they’re transparent and whether they might be rigged. And a system that’s fully electronic does not give people who use it the confidence that there’s any kind of audit capability, that the votes are recorded correctly and there isn’t cheating. So if for no other reason than transparency, I think we shouldn’t be using fully electronic systems. How closely are lawmakers paying attention to this, if at all? Rubin: I think it’s got their attention now. There’s a lot of media coverage around this issue. Lawmakers, at least every one that I know of, have to get elected so they have to be very concerned with the mechanism by which they get elected. How much do you think the report itself affected the electoral process? Rubin: I think it’s definitely the catalyst that got things started. But I don’t think it would’ve had the effect it did if it wasn’t the right time
