(bbv) Voting-machine critic will be the judge today (Md)

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Voting-machine critic will be the judge today

No security woes expected, but training not reassuring

By Johnathon E. Briggs
Sun Staff
Originally published March 2, 2004

If your polling place happens to be Trinity Assembly of God in Lutherville, you might run into a bespectacled election judge today who respects your right to cast a ballot, but not the electronic machines you'll use to do it.

The judge? Aviel D. Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University associate professor and one of the country's most outspoken critics of voting-machine security.

When the polls open at 7 a.m., he will be there to assist Super Tuesday voters with the new Diebold AccuVote-TS touch-screen machines, helping them navigate the ATM-like devices that his research shows are vulnerable to subversions by hackers ranging from casting multiple ballots to vote-switching.

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In January, a consultant hired by the state said the results tallied by the devices can be trusted - with some added security measures. A bill before a General Assembly committee would require the addition of an auditable paper trail for the electronic voting machines.

Rubin, 36, said he volunteered to serve as an election judge because he cares about democracy and has been accused by critics of not having experience with voting procedures.

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