“Ballot marking devices (BMDs) allow voters to select candidates on a computer kiosk, which prints a paper ballot that the voter can review before inserting it into a scanner to be tabulated.” “However, BMDs do not eliminate the risk of vote-stealing attacks. Malware could infect the ballot scanners and change the electronic tallies … or it could infect the BMDs themselves and alter what gets printed on the ballots. This latter variety of cheating cannot be detected by a post-election audit, since the paper trail itself would be wrong, and it cannot be ruled out by pre-election or parallel testing. Instead, BMD security relies on voters themselves detecting such an attack.”

Tags: ballot marking device, BMD, electronic tallies, malware, vote-stealing
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Date: 2020-05-01
eManual Index Number: 220
eManual Section: 8
eManual Section Title: Resources
eManual SubSection Title: Bookshelf
eManual page number: 214
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