April 23, 2004

Wary of E-Voting, Some Professors Sound the Alarm

By PETER SCHMIDT

Others say we'll byte the ballot eventually, so let's make electronic elections tamperproof

It is hard to dismiss Aviel D. Rubin as a conspiracy nut. He speaks in calm, measured tones, is an associate professor of computer science at the Johns Hopkins University, and is regarded as one of the nation's leading experts on computer security.

But the warnings that Mr. Rubin issues to the news media from his office here at the university's Information Security Institute sound as if

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