Security in Computing 5th Edition by Shari Lawrence Pfleeger, Charles P Pfleeger, Jonathan Margulies

Exercise 3

If you were supplying electronic voting machines for an election, what could you do to violate individuals’ privacy rights? That is, suggest some not readily apparent ways you could rig the machines to make it possible to determine after the election who had voted for which candidates.

Step 1 of 2

Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs)

The problem speculates on the use of Electronic Voting Machines (EVMs) and their Possible Misuse. The use of EVMs in the United States has been the subject of much controversy, since its first wide implementation at the 2000 Presidential election in Florida.