Avi Rubin Quotes

Touch screen voting is a fine thing so long as they have a voter-verified paper trail.

I think that, you know, looking at all the systems that I've been studying over the last several years, that paper ballots with a precinct optical scan counters and random audits is the best system that we can have.

I'd like people to be educated on the voting machines, making sure that our democracy isn't being hijacked by computer technology. There's no reason there can't be a paper trail on those machines.

About one quarter of all the voting machines in the United States stupidly do not have any paper trail.

My position hasn't changed over the years. Which is that online voting is a very unsafe idea and a very bad idea and something I think no technological breakthrough I can foresee can ever change.

It's the concept of having a computer voting machine that bothers me, more so than the specific poor implementation that we have from Diebold.

From casting to counting, our votes must be better protected in all voting systems.

Thank God for paper ballots.

Voters want to know that elections will be conducted fairly and accurately.

It is a sign of the times that the absence of meaningful ID requirements in many states leaves our voting process vulnerable to fraud and allows legal votes to be cancelled out by illegally cast ballots.

We've got ballots flying around, being counted by hand, arriving by truck and in God knows whose custody.

Elections should be prepared as well as possible and raise as little doubt as possible

Why do we not have online voting? There's a security system in place already - on our cellphones. We already use biometrics to log into our banking. We use it to log into our health records. Why can't we have online safe and secure voting?

Voter fraud especially matters when elections are close.

Voter confidence depends on the clean elections.

Pretending that voter fraud does not exist puts the integrity of our voting process at risk.

Mail-in voting is a proven and significant threat to election integrity.

Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.

The most important thing is who counts the votes.

Organizations worried about the potential for e-voting problems have long-advocated for audit procedures by which votes cast by e-voting machines could be verified through audit trails.

We have a system that allows us to manage a free and fair election, free of fraud, free of intimidation, and that's what we delivered on election day, and we're very very proud of it.

Requiring valid, photographic identification is a common sense step to ensure voter integrity and sound elections.

Beyond that, states had to also have electronic voting machines that made it possible for people who are physically handicapped to vote in private... and the computerized voting machine made it very easy for, particularly, the blind.

Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.