Florida County Asks Students To Crack Elections

imAck writes: "After the election fiasco last year in Florida, many have discussed the possibilities of using a computerized voting system to replace the old punch-card ballot system. Florida's Broward county is considering buying a $20 million dollar computerized touchscreen system to handle future elections. What makes the story interesting is how they are planning to test the system for security holes. The county plans on holding mock elections in high schools and at senior citizen communities. They are actually asking the students to try and hack into the system during the mock elections to learn of possible security issues." I wonder if Broward County would look into spending their money on hardware and supporting development of the GNU Project's existing electronic voting software.

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Re:Now this is ironic!

[fmaxwell]

Umm, it's well established in political science today that the less educated one is, the more likely he or she is to favor the Democratic Party.

[sarcasm]That's why Bush did so well in areas with the most-educated populations.[/sarcasm]

Let's look at states that have Ivy League Schools (Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania, and Yale). Gore won Massachusetts (MIT and Harvard), Connecticut (Yale), Rhode Island (Brown University), New York (Columbia, Cornell), New Jersey (Princeton), and Pennsylvania (University of Pennsylvania).

Bush, on the other hand, won only a single state that had an Ivy League school -- Rhode Island (Brown). Of course Bush also carried intellectual meccas like Alabama, West Virginia, and South Carolina.