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Article #201Re: Let's all vote! Let's all vote AGAIN! and AGAIN! Whee!
From: George
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:41
Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2006 14:41
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bearclaw@cruller.invalid wrote: > Make Your Vote _Really_ Count > > California voters may be in for a touch of Chicago charm, thanks to a > newly discovered �feature� in some voting machines that could allow a > voter to cast multiple ballots. > > Activist group Black Box Voting discovered that by merely pressing a > yellow button on the back of the AVC Edge electronic voting machine, > made by Sequoia Voting Systems, a user can vote as many times as he > wants. The button is intended to be a manual override switch, in case > poll workers can�t access a machine via smart cards. > > Sequoia acknowledge the potential for abuse and said it�ll come up with > a fix�after Tuesday�s elections, where the machine in question will be > widely used by California counties and more sporadically in a few other > states. The California secretary of state responded with an advisory > instructing poll workers to be on the alert for the distinctive > electronic chirp the button emits when pressed. > I have absolutely zero trust in electronic voting systems because there is no paper trail, no peer reviewed software and poorly designed equipment. Diebold seems to be the biggest problem. Their machines run Windows and the code is still a work in progress with constant changes. They even went so far as to use a lock whose key is commonly used on cheepo office furniture. They will not allow any sort of independent review of their software to verify program logic. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WMG34cv0zM
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