Electronic Voting: Your Worst Nightmares are True

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday September 4, 2003 @07:58AM from the its-only-gonna-get-worse dept.

jfreon writes "On Democracy Now Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting fame, disclosed (near the end of the transcript) that in the compromised 1.8Gigs off Diebold's FTP site they uncovered "an actual election file containing actual votes on election day from San Luis Obispo County, California". Problem is, the date stamp was 3:31pm - during voting hours! The Diebold system uses a wireless network card. Worse: "So that means if they can pull the information in, they can also send information back into those machines. ""

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Slashdot is a small portion of the public by Neophytus · 2003-09-04 07:58 · Score: 5, Interesting

This needs to make mainstream press, and DAMN QUICK.
1. Re:Slashdot is a small portion of the public by Thorsett · 2003-09-04 09:06 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Yep. And guess what party that woud be?
  
  From today's Ohio Beacon Journal"
  
  Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc., told Republicans in an Aug. 14 fund-raising letter that he is ``committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.''