Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Electronic Voting Machines Easily Compromised


It's an old adage in politics that you need truckloads of money to get elected. Apparently you can now buy an election for what you'd spend in a few days on cups of coffee. Black Box Voting found that given $12 in tools, four minutes, and a little determination, you can access a Diebold voting machine's memory card, remove and replace it without a trace. This new development really isn't all that surprising given that it's been shown that these machines can be hacked in more than one way, even by monkeys. Concerned citizens, just switch to absentee paper ballots from now on -- it may be low-tech, but it's a hell of a lot more secure going the "old-fashioned" way.





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1 comment:

Eric Brown said...

I am gonna vote absentee from now on. Last time I voted on the machine was bogus...I requested a printout of my vote and was denied.