BBV: Malicious Insiders - Forbidden Concern? [View All]

[Junkdrawer]

Why is it that one of the chief concerns of electronic voting is hardly ever mentioned in press coverage of the issue?

I know that my chief concern is that the major voting machine companies are owned by Republican partisans that, at least in one instance, have promised to do everything in their power to re-elect Bush. I know that's why I want elections auditable and audited. And yet when CNN, for example, does a story, the concerns are limited to software errors and outside hackers.

Advocates of electronic voting say paperless ballots save money and eliminate problems common to old systems. But the technology brings a new breed of security concerns, like software errors and hackers that could make the results unreliable.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/03/02/e.voting.test.ap/index.html

And it's not just CNN. I think I could count on one hand the number of mainstream articles that bring up the malicious insider concern.