Techmeme: Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source (J. Alex Halderman/Freedom to Tinker)

5:25 PM ET, August 22, 2010

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J. Alex Halderman / Freedom to Tinker:

Electronic Voting Researcher Arrested Over Anonymous Source — About four months ago, Ed Felten blogged about a research paper in which Hari Prasad, Rop Gonggrijp, and I detailed serious security flaws in India's electronic voting machines. Indian election authorities have repeatedly claimed …

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