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Audit of Maryland E-Voting Machines Reveals Significant Security Flaws

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The Maryland Department of Legislative Services hired RABA Technologies to run their recently purchased Diebold touch screen e-voting system through an extensive testing program designed to simulate a range of possible attacks by hackers. The result is a 25 page audit, Trusted Agent Report, Diebold Accu-Vote TS Voting System.

  • The report determined that the e-voting machines and server software tested posed considerable security risks that could impact the outcome of the upcoming elections, thus requiring specific and immediate corrective action to be undertaken.
  • From the Washington Post, “The report clearly rattled lawmakers and others skeptical of the voting machines.”
  • From Wired, this quote from a participant in the study, Prof. William Arbaugh, “I was really surprised with the totality of the problems we found. Just about everywhere we looked we found them.”
  • The related press release from Diebold however presents a completely different conclusion: “Maryland Security Study Validates Diebold Election Systems Equipment for March Primary.”
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