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Virginia Begins to Worry About Voting Machines

Posted by Hemos on from the who-do-you-trust dept.

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."

5 of 386 comments (clear)

  1. SCO Group to Shoot Babies! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    SCO Group to Shoot Babies

  2. First non GNAA post. 10 reasons why gnome sucks! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    10) Registry editor clone (gconf-editor).
    9) "Instant Apply" techology that can accidently cause damage (Ooops, I selected hello.jpg as my wallpaper instead of fish.jpg)
    8) Weather applet that shows fahrenheit by default (Hello, the wolrd is != USA)
    7) The half assed way of changing screen resolutions. The Xrandr hack is useless if you want to change colour depth.
    6) No easy way to edit menus. With windows I can right click the menu and rename, edit, and drag and drop entries. You are at the mercy of your distro's complex heiracrhy without editing text files.
    5) Nautilus, half asssed file management with no "real" features. Guess whos using konqueror.
    4) Its word processor (Abi word office) has no table support
    3) The clock, in its asswipe MM/DD format (again W!=USA)
    2) The file dialog (no further comment)

    And last but not least

    *drumroll*

    1) HAVOC PENNINGTON

    The person who took gnome from being a KDE Kass Kicker in 1.4 to a VTECH Whizzkid computer in 2.3. Give us back our features and shove your "HIG" up your millimetre dick

  3. In other news, by pschmerg · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Virginia still can't balance its budget and is screwing over students by massive budget cuts. Couldn't the money the commonwealth is putting into this be better put to use in the failing school systems?

  4. Offtopic : "Is the filthy critic really dead?" by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Or was this some kind of joke?

  5. Re:Electronic Voting = REPUBLICAN MANIPULATION by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    Only fags let friends vote democrat.

    Heil Nader!

    Heil Dean!

    Heil Jerry Brown!