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Electronic Voting: Your Worst Nightmares are True

Posted by CmdrTaco on 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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  1. Before it gets said by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Redundant

    1) In Russia democracy doesn't own you

    2) It isn't 1) Voting 2) ??? 3) Hax0red votes

    3) There isn't a beowulf cluster of voters, a cluster of hacked boxes, or a cluster of hackers

    4) No one welcomes our hacking overlords, democratic overlords, or anyone else. No one is welcome. For anything.

    5) None of these computers run linux. The hackers used windows. The routers used windows. The voters used Microsoft Bob.