cited “usability issues” that had been brought to their attention, but the election board’s chief technology officer later admitted to the Washington Post that “the integrity of the system had been violated.”

A Michigan professor apparently “unleashed his students” on the system to get the win for Michigan.

The system, which was paid for in part with a $300,000 federal grant, was supposed to allow about 900 military personnel and overseas voters the ability to cast absentee ballots. But officials now say the voters will only be able to download their ballots via the system and will then have to send them in separately — via post, e-mail or fax – to be counted.

Common Cause, computer scientists and others had warned election board officials that the system was a security risk, but officials had dismissed their concerns.

Authors: Kim Zetter

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