If you want to rig an election, anything is possible with the Diebold TS

[mandy]

“This may be the worst security flaw we have seen in touch screen voting machines,” says Open Voting Foundation president, Alan Dechert. Upon examining the inner workings of one of the most popular paperless touch screen voting machines used in public elections in the United States, it has been determined that with the flip of a single switch inside, the machine can behave in a completely different manner compared to the tested and certified version.

“Diebold has made the testing and certification process practically irrelevant,” according to Dechert. “If you have access to these machines and you want to rig an election, anything is possible with the Diebold TS -- and it could be done without leaving a trace. All you need is a screwdriver.” This model does not produce a voter verified paper trail so there is no way to check if the voter’s choices are accurately reflected in the tabulation...

full article: http://openvotingfoundation.org/

[bargainbloodhound]

Does it really matter if the voting machines can be manipulated since the outcome of many elections is now decided by who has the biggest bank account?.  New York City's mayor is a good example of someone who basically bought himself an election solely because he was able to spend 20X more than everyone else. 

[mandy]

A related article:

The access panel door on a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine — the door that protects the memory card that stores the votes, and is the main barrier to the injection of a virus — can be opened with a standard key that is widely available on the Internet...

Chris Tengi, a technical staff member, asked to look at the key that came with the voting machine. He noticed an alphanumeric code printed on the key, and remarked that he had a key at home with the same code on it. The next day he brought in his key and sure enough it opened the voting machine.

This seemed like a freakish coincidence — until we learned how common these keys are.

Chris’s key was left over from a previous job, maybe fifteen years ago. He said the key had opened either a file cabinet or the access panel on an old VAX computer. A little research revealed that the exact same key is used widely in office furniture, electronic equipment, jukeboxes, and hotel minibars. It’s a standard part, and like most standard parts it’s easily purchased on the Internet. We bought several keys from an office furniture key shop — they open the voting machine too. We ordered another key on eBay from a jukebox supply shop. The keys can be purchased from many online merchants...

full article: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/?p=1064

[DecorativeDishes]

I hope everyone likes the government we have now, because they aren't going anywhere. Electronic voting machines are the death knell of any remaining semblance of democracy. A corrupt politician's dream.  :'( Kim

[cranky_hippie]

Does it really matter if the voting machines can be manipulated since the outcome of many elections is now decided by who has the biggest bank account?. 

Please, please, please, Vote Gods, I beseech you. Don't let it be true here in MI. If Dickwad DeVos' millions buy him this election, we are in even more trouble than we are in now. The last Repug governor left us with a mess that no one could clean up in 5 years. What this turkey could do scares the hell out of me.

[mandy]

A related article written by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Will the Next Election Be Hacked?"

The debacle of the 2000 presidential election made it all too apparent to most Americans that our electoral system is broken. And private-sector entrepreneurs were quick to offer a fix: Touch-screen voting machines, promised the industry and its lobbyists, would make voting as easy and reliable as withdrawing cash from an ATM. Congress, always ready with funds for needy industries, swiftly authorized $3.9 billion to upgrade the nation's election systems - with much of the money devoted to installing electronic voting machines in each of America's 180,000 precincts. But as midterm elections approach this November, electronic voting machines are making things worse instead of better. Studies have demonstrated that hackers can easily rig the technology to fix an election - and across the country this year, faulty equipment and lax security have repeatedly undermined election primaries...

full article: http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/sto...e_hacked/1

[landofsmiles]

Please, don't get me started.

Is there anyone out there even worth voting for anymore? Everything's a 30 second soundbite.

   

[landofsmiles]

Not that the restof the world doesn't have problems as well.

:germanysmiley: :hollandsmiley: :diger: :christine:

We need more flag smilies.

And more

:mgoodnews:

[BellisimaJ.]

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Please, don't get me started.

[/quote]

Same here, Bob. I am already on fire this morning because of the that Repugnant Perverted boinktard, FOLEY.

[landofsmiles]

Ironically enough, under laws that Foley helped write, soliciting sex from a minor online is a federal crime.