Now it turns out that Ciber, the lab hired by government to make sure electronic voting machines are working properly and securely, didn't do the job.
It was not following its quality-control procedures and could not document that it was conducting all the required tests.
The federal commission overseeing elections knew this last summer and did nothing about it. Is it fair to say that our voting procedures are riddled, like our leadership, with incompetence and corruption? Does this matter sufficiently to members of Congress that they will make it one of the first issues they focus on?
Experts say the deficiencies of the laboratory suggest that crucial features like the vote-counting software and security against hacking may not have been thoroughly tested on many machines now in use. “What’s scary is that we’ve been using systems in elections that Ciber had certified, and this calls into question those systems that they tested,” said Aviel D. Rubin, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins.
