Touchscreen Hack Effort Called ‘Monkey Business’

FOX News — “Critics of the Diebold (search) touch-screen voting machines turned their attention Wednesday from the machines themselves to the computers that will tally the final vote, saying the outcome is so easy to manipulate that even a monkey could do it. And they showed video of a monkey hacking the system to prove it.”

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Resources:

Project: Voting and Usability (UPA)

Voting for Usability: Background on the Issues (Whitney Quesenbery)

Voting Machine Usability (Joel Spolsky)

voting and e-voting user experience: US (Louise Ferguson)

The Ballot Ballet: The Usability of Accessible Voting Machines (Access World)

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