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Virginia Begins to Worry About Voting Machines
nonsecurity writes "Remember the unheeded stories about possible fraud with new electronic voting machines? Well it seems that someone is finally now taking notice. The Commonwealth of Virginia has been ready to take the leap with electronic voting machines, which many experts say are wide open to potential voting fraud.
Like other jurisdictions, Virginia had been shrugging off the concerns. But the Washington Post is is now reporting that Johns Hopkins Computer Scientists have been studying the issue and have found that the machines might be easily hacked and election result tampering is a very real concern. And apparently Virginia is listening. With next year's elections promising to be full of fireworks, it's good to see that people are finally taking notice of the issue."
I don't understand the worries about electronic voting machines; they are just so convenient. I'm building one myself that uses the "poll" section of SlashCode, so that my fellow neighbors can vote (and comment) with out leaving their webTV's.
As they say in Hudson County, NJ... "Vote early, vote often".
In an amazing upset, the winner was not even running. It appears that Linus, maker of the well known Linux operating system has won the Presidential election. Of special note is how he received four hundred billion votes...
If these machines really are insecure, then the John Hopkins researchers should just hack themselves into the Governor's office. Then it would be a simple matter to introduce better voting machines.
All machines had the same password hard-wired into the code. And in some instances, it was set at 1111, a number laughably easy to hack, Rubin said.
Go figure.
$ strings FTP.EXE | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
Democracy could run under the Slashdot system. Let each of the candidates post a response to the news item "Presidential Election 2004".
Then, moderate away on each candidate's post. The +5 Interesting ends up in the White House, the -1 Troll can hit the lecture circuit.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
November 5, 2004 Washington:
In a stunning upset, Indian Prime Minister Shri Atal Bihari Vajpayee has been unanimously elected President of The United States of America. In an interview this morning in New Delhi, President-Elect Vajpayee stated that his first order of business would be to persuade Canadian President-Elect Pervez Musharraf to stand down on his quest for weapons of mass destruction, by force if necessary.
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Some enterprising White Hat has to hack one of these machines before election day so that all votes are registered to Alfred E. Newman. Then all we have to do is watch the fireworks.
All your base are belong to us!
In a stunning upset, Apu Nahasapeemapetilon of Springfield, USA has been unanimously elected President of The United States of America. In an interview this morning , President-Elect Nahasapeemapetilon stated that replacing the ATM machine in his Kwik-E-Mart was the best idea he had since deciding to serve green Squishee's.
Springfield citizen Homer Simpson was asked what he thought of the new voting system, but apparently he entered the Kwik-E-Mart to vote, and then saw the hot-dogs and forgot why he was there in the first place. "Mmmmm. 3 day old frankfurters [drool]" was his only comment.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
But won't that require a $699 per machine license fee?
It would be embarrassing to have to get the SC to select him AGAIN. It's so much easier just program in the results.
Why not simply do a vote electronically one night, and then do another vote with paper a week later (not announced until the first results are in). If anyone wins by a landslide in the first, but loses in the second, they get a bullet in the head.
Hey! That reminds me...
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Which would you rather have?
An serious-minded, experienced and respected Chairman of the Armed Services Committee
An eager, qualified challenger with new ideas
Cowboy Neal
You've chosen to post your terroristic musing as an "Anonymous Coward". Fortunately, we solved that problem months ago, so prepare for Enemy Combatant status. Hello Guanatanamo.
> Seemed to work out nicely except for the fact that I had to wake up 4 hours early that day to be at one of the polling stations. =(
Yeah, getting up at 10AM is a bitch.
Sheesh, evil *and* a jerk. -- Jade
i think you will find that they are called polling stations mate :)
Simon
Kingdom of Loathing (www.kingdomofloathing.com) Addicted is me
"The CEO's probably heard from Microsoft that Open Source will make all your hair fall out and your company to go bust."
The first has happened to Ballmer. Is it only a matter of time for the company?
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
why even worry about people voting twice? if they care that much then let their vote count as two, or three.. I'm sure there are zealous voters for the other side to counter the effect.
bite my glorious golden ass.