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Center for Information Technology Policy & Voting Study
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Sep 16, 2006 11:53am
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•http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/
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Oh, dear. With barely a month before the November 2006 election, "three Princeton computer scientists created demonstration vote-stealing software that can be installed within a minute on a common electronic voting machine. The software can fraudulently change vote counts without being detected." Not only that, but they also have a proof-of-concept self-propigating virus (via memory card) that can infect all voting machines (that come in contact with an infected card) with their vote-rigging software.
This illustrates a point I've long suspected, that electronic voting has been created to make ballot tampering *EASIER*. Once the vote count is moved into the digital realm, a LOT more work needs to be done to insure the integrity of the recorded vote. Look for these touch-screen voting machines in this November's election because 2006 is the implementation deadline for the "Help America Vote" act. I don't know about you, but I REALLY didn't want George helping me vote.
Bev Harris over at Black Box Voting has probably done the best job out of anyone on covering electronic voting machine vulnerabilities and failures of election officials to follow their own rules. Her former publisher also does a pretty good job too, at his own Black Box Voting site.
Fortunately, my state seems to have end-run the eletronic voting issue by switching the entire state to absentee balloting, which is actually quite nice getting a couple of weeks to study your choices and make informed decisions.
While we're on the subject of ballot tampering, Greg Palast has published a bit on the theft of the Ohio 2004 election.
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