Voting Fraud

Voting Fraud

Election and Voting Fraud

Overview of Election and Voting Fraud in relation to cyber crime: [1]To prevent such problems, election officials in the State of Nevada installed and successfully tested touch screen voting machines between 2001 and 2005 for county and state races, thus paving the way for other states and political jurisdictions to adopt similar computerized voting devices. However, concerns about assuring the confidentiality, integrity, and authenticity of votes cast electronically remain in many polling jurisdictions. Some officials, as well as political science and computer experts, worry that hackers or others may be able to break into insufficiently protected information systems to manipulate or destroy electronically cast votes, even to the point of changing who wins or loses a given race.

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Notes and References

1. By Eric Walter

See Also

  • Types of Cybercrime
  • Cybercriminal

Further Reading

Bellis,Mary. (1997). The history of voting machines. Retrieved from About.com.https://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa111300b.htm; Feldman, A., J. Halderman, and E. Felten. (2006). Security analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine. Princeton, NJ: Center for Information Technology Policy and Department of Computer Science, Princeton University. Retrieved from https://itpolicy .princeton.edu/voting/ts-paper.pdf; McQuade, S. (2006). Understanding and managing cybercrime, 150–152. Boston, MA: Pearson/Allyn and Bacon; Simons, B. (2007, August 13). California: The top to bottom review. The Voter. Retrieved March 10, 2008, from (internet link) votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task =view&id=2554&Itemid=113.


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