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Inside Electronic Voting Machines

Posted by michael on from the vote-for-buchanan dept.

Alien54 and several other people wrote in about a couple of stories published in a New Zealand webzine: an examination of an electronic voting system, and some less interesting political speculation about it. Diebold voting systems are in fairly wide use, and apparently provide zero security to keep election officials from writing in whatever election totals they want.

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  1. First vote! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    We should have a slashdot poll about this.
    And then rig the results. :)

    1. Re:First vote! by Detritus · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sorry, the City of Chicago has been granted a "business process" patent on fixing elections.

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  2. I need my meds.. by grub · · Score: 4, Funny


    [tinfoil_hat]In the near future we will be given ballots containing RFIDs which will tie the voter to the vote. mwahahahaha![/tinfoil_hat]

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  3. Of course by DNS-and-BIND · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not a bug, it's a feature!

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  4. Does it really take a computer... by el-spectre · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... to tabulate the votes of the supreme court? Those are the votes used to selec..., er elect the pres...

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  5. Re:Solve all voting machine problems by cK-Gunslinger · · Score: 4, Funny
    why not at least require a literacy standard for voting
    Because everyone in the US is affected by US policy, therefore everyone in the US needs to be represented. If illiterates weren't allowed to vote, should they also not be required to pay taxes since they are not represented by lawmakers? Anyway, why stop at illiteracy. Why not require IQ scores of 145+ or high SAT verbals? Or anything that would exclude you from voting. Would you like that?

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  6. No different than from voting in South Texas by christoofar · · Score: 5, Funny

    Politicians here have to spend lots to get the dead to vote... but they manage to turn out year after year. How failful to their citizenry after they're gone...