At a hearing on the “Use, Security, and Reliability of Electronic Voting Systems” held today by the United States Election Assistance Commission (EAC), Johns Hopkins University computer science professor and computer security expert Avi Rubin testified that the e-voting systems currently in place for the November election are fundamentally flawed. A recent New York Times article profiled Prof. Rubin’s research on e-voting technology and the ease with which he and his students were able to hack equipment by Diebold, used by states including Maryland and California. Other testimony to the commission supported the position that a paper record trail to validate e-voting systems is essential, but vendors disagreed.