Electronic Voting

The documentary Hacking Democracy really opened my eyes to the problems with electronic voting. The film follows the group, Black Box Voting, which is a nonprofit organization that studies how the election results could be altered. Like all computer progams there can be vulnerabilities in it. The actual election results are stored in a file using Microsoft Access that can be easily opened and edited, without permissions.
What is even more alarming about the Diebold company is why and how they were contracted to make the voting machines. There were many companies hoping to get the contract, but Diebold, being the highest bid among the companies must have had some connections. Robert Kennedy Jr. in an article entitled, Will The Next Election Be Hacked?, stated that Diebold totally toook over Georgia's election without supervision. They could have installed software without anyone's knowledge. A former employee of Diebold has came forward in recent years to state what he knows and how unsecure the machines can be.
If I was in charge of California's election I would hire an independent monitoring firm from either outside of the country or from another state. In this case, there would be people not affiliated with either party or candidate that is going to look over and review the results and see if they aren't tampered with. As for the software problem, it might be time to invest in a very secure voting system that is constantly being updated. There are always going to be little problems, as we saw with the "hanging chad's" with the paper votes.