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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. :)

  2. 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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    "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." - A.B.
  3. 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...