Title: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL? | Snopes.com
Headings: Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Obama Sold Vote Processing Rights to SCYTL?
Has President Obama sold the tabulating of votes in U.S. national elections to a Spanish company run by a donor to his campaign?
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Content: During a one-week test period, the D.C. Board of Elections and Ethics asked the public to test its integrity. Students from a University of Michigan class obliged and within 36 hours had posted the Michigan fight song on the website. “Not only were they able to penetrate the system, but also they were monitoring what was going inside the system itself,” Alexander Shvartsman, professor at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Voting Technology Research, said. He added that the students were also able to see the electronic signatures of hackers based in both China and Iran probing the D.C. site. The District of Columbia scrapped the plan and has no plans to resurrect it in 2012. (SOE software does have a more expansive roster of U.S. customers, but their products are aimed at providing ancillary services to local governments such as helping constituents communicate with government offices or displaying election results, not systems to record and tabulate votes.) The security and auditability of online voting systems remains a subject of debate, which, as noted above, makes it quite improbable there will be any statewide (much less nationwide) use of systems like Scytl’s in tabulating votes for the 2012 presidential election. Steve Wildstrom, writing in Tech.pinions, outlined the difficulties of implementing such systems securely: Voting, alas, has unique characteristics that make internet implementations all but impossible given current technology. The big problem is that we make two demands of it that cannot be met simultaneously.