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Ohio Opts to Put Touch Screen Voting on Hold

Posted by timothy on from the sheep-and-wolves-confer dept.

Dachannien writes "The AP reports that Ohio's Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell is asking the Feds for an extension of the deadline for installing touch-screen voting machines at polling places for the 2004 election, citing numerous security concerns. The problems discovered in a review of 57 areas of concern include such gems as "software that permits votes to be counted more than once" and "unauthorized poll workers or others could gain access to hardware that could allow them to perform supervisory tasks, such as closing the polls.""

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  1. About time... by Ianoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Finally they're getting the message about poorly written voting software. In an critical areas like this proper software engineering techniques should be applied lavishly. It seems Diebold in particular has forgotten how to write secure software, or more likely never knew. For example, why couldn't a voting machine do what airplanes do, and have several separate machines processing the same input data, with software written by several different organisations?