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Foj
Citizen
Username: Foger
Post Number: 1422
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Sunday, May 21, 2006 - 11:04 pm: | 
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New Fears of Security Risks in Electronic Voting Systems
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/12/us/12vote.html?ex=114
..."It's the most severe security flaw ever discovered in a voting system," said Michael I. Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who is an examiner of electronic voting systems for Pennsylvania, where the primary is to take place on Tuesday.
Officials from Diebold and from elections' offices in numerous states minimized the significance of the risk and emphasized that there were no signs that any touch-screen machines had been tampered with. But computer scientists said the problem might allow someone to tamper with a machine's software, some saying they preferred not to discuss the flaw at all for fear of offering a roadmap to a hacker.
"This is the barn door being wide open, while people were arguing over the lock on the front door," said Douglas W. Jones, a professor of computer science at the University of Iowa, a state where the primary is June 6.
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Dr Shamos recently hacked the vote counting tabulator for the Sequoia Advantage voting machine. This is the Machine that 5 DEM Freeholders in ESSEX voted for and we are now taking shipment of, to be used in the June primary.
And we know that the system can be hacked............ Stupid DEMS. |
notehead
Supporter
Username: Notehead
Post Number: 3305
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 11:13 am: |
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Why the insistence on computer-based voting machines in the first place? Why bring such critical data into such perilous territory? Let me cast a physical vote -- something that makes a clear and permanent change in physical media, and get a physical copy of it. Is that too much to ask? ARGH! |
Dave
Supporter
Username: Dave
Post Number: 9510
Registered: 4-1997
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 11:16 am: |
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Agreed. It's not like something that happens 3-4 times a year at most needs automation. |
Foj
Citizen
Username: Foger
Post Number: 1423
Registered: 9-2004
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 9:53 pm: |
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HAVA passed in 2002. |
Tom Reingold
Supporter
Username: Noglider
Post Number: 14394
Registered: 1-2003
| | Posted on Monday, May 22, 2006 - 10:40 pm: |
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And if you must use a computer, ask some computer scientists if the design makes sense. The experts have been saying the design is utterly flawed from the beginning.
http://avirubin.com/vote/
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Robert Livingston
Citizen
Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 1911
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Tuesday, May 23, 2006 - 9:27 am: |
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Republicans have to cheat to win. What a bunch of scumbags. |
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