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More on the Dangers of eVoting

Posted by michael on from the up-the-creek-without-a-paddle dept.

blamanj writes "A lot of discussion has been focused on the lack of security in electronic voting systems. What hasn't been as widely discussed, is just how tiny the voting manipulations have to be to have an effect. In this months CACM (cite, pdf of original paper is here), some Yale students show that altering only a single vote per machine would have changed the electoral college outcome of the 2000 election. Changing only two votes/machine would have flipped the results for four states."

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  1. Bugs in OSS Voting software ... by oldosadmin · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was just thinking.

    How scary would it be to go to bugzilla.election.gov.us or something and see "BUG #1212 -- Votes from Slashdot readers weighted based on karma"

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  2. Another danger by frovingslosh · · Score: 4, Funny

    None of this even mentions the serious problem that one of the people running might actually get elected.

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  3. Re:Unrealistic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm sorry; we need to rename the site to \. because there's no way anyone can accuse the site of having a right-wing slant.

    I am positively amused by the doom and gloom which you have forecast. Thanks; you've made my day. :)

  4. No, the danger is like shown in this video... by antdude · · Score: 2, Funny

    here.

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  5. Diebold rig the election? Thats unpossible! by Kenja · · Score: 2, Funny

    Just because Diebold has said they are committed to delivering votes to George Bush and they make e-voting hardware without an auditing system that a monkey can hack is no reason to suspect everything is less then on the up and up.

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  6. Wait a second . . . by Cyberllama · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yale students show that altering only a single vote per machine would have changed the electoral college outcome of the 2000 election

    You mean Bush would have won?!

  7. Re:Unrealistic by h4rm0ny · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just to bring a further humour to this election (God knows, it needs it), have a look here. In amongst the photos of easy to make Halloween costumes, is this:
    "Give Democrats in your neighborhood the chills with this adorable re-creation of a computerized, touch-screen voting machine!"
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