Continued from my previous post on this topic.
" It is like the nuclear bomb for e-voting systems. It's the deal breaker. It really makes the security flaws that we found (in prior years) look trivial. "
-Avi Rubin, computer science professor, Johns Hopkins University
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Todays article posted in SecurityFocus
Diebold voting systems critically flawed
The call--from election watchdog BlackBoxVoting.org--described a critical vulnerability in Diebold Election Systems' touchscreen voting systems that could allow any person with access to a voting terminal the ability to completely change the system code or ballot file on the system. As a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University and adviser to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on electronic voting, Shamos realized that, at the very least, a workaround for the flaw needed to be in place by Pennsylvania's next election--at the time, less than three weeks away.
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There were many reports of irregularities in Ohio and Florida, two key states that locked in Bush's victory. I read that some precincts reported a larger Republican vote than the TOTAL REGISTERED VOTER COUNT for the precinct. Why this did not generate more outrage from the Democrats is puzzling. I think they were too ignorant to understand the problem.
Kerry may very well have won that election, and it was stolen from him, just as the 2000 election was stolen from Gore.
That's two in a row. We need to make sure this does NOT happen this fall in the Congressional elections and in 2008 when we are going to throw these clowns out of Washington!