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Evoting in India, Maryland
Anonymous Coward writes "EVMs are back in the news again. The BBC is reporting on the use of over a million Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) in India for Parliamentary elections in April. With a billion people and an electorate of 668 million, it is by far the largest democratic election exercise in the world. A picture of an EVM is provided." And Kierthos writes "An article on Yahoo! News mentions that Maryland's voting terminals will be wrapped in tamper proof tape, which 'just protects that malicious code physically', according to computer scientist Avi Rubin. Also mentioned are California's ongoing system of e-voting, as well as a point on whether Diebold should be banned in California after using uncertified software in last October's election."
You can identify some districts as "heavily Democrat," "heavily Republican," etc and tamper accordingly.
Meanwhile, the Netherlands has had electronic voting for over 10 years now
Details here
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
Where does this BS come from? I live in South Florida, and watched the election debacle firsthand. Despite following closely, I never heard these stories direct from a credible source, instead they started to show up long after it was over from various crackpots. Please present evidence, cause I'd like to have our (democratic) supervisor of elections arrested if it's true. The reality of the matter is nothing really unusual happened, it just so happened Florida turned it's vote in last so Florida became the fighting ground. If you believe voting is actually 100% accurate anywhere you are deluding yourself.