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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."
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.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
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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