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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. manually set vote counts? (Y/n) by JUSTONEMORELATTE · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is going to be in place for the '04 elections in the US. Czar Ashcroft said something about "Streamlining the process to protect our freedoms."

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  2. Not going to happen here. by gurps_npc · · Score: 0, Troll

    Look, the republicans are not smart enough to fix an electronic voting machine and the democrats would fix it so that the votes were split between 3 different right in canidates.

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  3. You know what this means? by burgburgburg · · Score: 0, Troll
    Tax cuts! Tax cuts! Tax cuts!

    Oh, and war with Iran, Syria, North Korea, Cuba, etc.
    But don't worry. It's for your protection.