David L. Dill is a Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and made this comment, which appears in the film Hacking Democracy (transcribed by Andi Novick):Â
"Supposing we didn't have any computers at all and when you went to vote. The voting booth was separated by a curtain and there was a guy behind the curtain who would write down your votes. So you just dictate them, he writes them down and when you're done you leave without being able to look at the ballot. Most people in their right mind would not trust this process, the guy behind the curtain could be incompetent; he could hear your votes wrong and record them improperly; or it could be that he doesn't like your political affiliation and would prefer to see your votes cast for someone else. "In an electronic voting machine you don't have a little guy inside the machine taking dictation, but you have lots of people who are involved in writing the software and lots of people who could have touched the software before it went into that machine. If one of those people put something malicious in the software and it's distributed to all the machines, then that one person could be responsible for the change of tens of thousands of votes maybe even hundred of thousands across the country. That's a very dangerous situation."
If you'd like to read more quotes by computer security experts, we've collected them in three formats: brief; longer; and a bibliographic list in which you can read the full report. Â
 ·Ã‚        50+ Bibliography of Scientific Studies on Computerized Voting SystemsÂ
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