There’s more than one way to hack an election

This week’s Market Squared tries to take the five-thousand-foot view on election security issues after this week’s meeting on internet voting In 2006 I was the editor of thecannon.ca when my colleague Scott Gilbert had an idea to prove how easy it was to hack the municipal election. His method was sophisticated, he would walk into five different polling locations and cast a ballot, and he did. Guelph police even investigated, though they chose not to charge him, and Gilbert's ballots were all invalid anyway because he intentionally spoiled them. Now, to the credit of City of Guelph staff, they…