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Avi Rubin and More on Electronic Voting

Posted by michael on from the undetectable-fraud-was-undetected-by-definition dept.

jgo writes "Johns Hopkins Computer Science professor Avi Rubin, posted his experience as an election judge on his website. It's an interesting read and exposes some potential security problems with electronic voting. At one point he held in his hand the five memory cards containing all of his precinct's votes." Rubin had posted his experience in the primary election earlier.

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  1. Voting machines are prone to human failure by asadodetira · · Score: 5, Funny

    Human mistakes could affect results in voting machines.
    The voting machines should be supervised by robots...with shotguns

  2. VIVA.... by ilikeitraw · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... CANADA ! I'm OUTTA here. Later suckers !
    (free weed, no guns (only laser warfare), and you can travel and not be hated... amazing).

    Laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate !

  3. Just make sure people know you are from Canada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    ..as people from Canada still sound like yanks to the the rest of the world. Of course, we can tell you aren't when we notice you aren't arrogrant and don't sy things like "It isn't like this back home...".

    Also when you don't threaten to sue everyone we know you are from Canada.

    1. Re:Just make sure people know you are from Canada by Brandybuck · · Score: 4, Funny

      When I was in Germany I asked the people I was staying with how they could tell us Americans and Canadians apart.

      "Oh, that's easy! If I find you in the morning passed out in my garden, you must be Canadian."

      --
      Don't blame me, I didn't vote for either of them!
  4. What a cool name by CdBee · · Score: 4, Funny

    Avi Rubin. The only thing more perfect would be if he'd given this report to an online TV station, it could be Rubin.Avi then.

    I'm gonna change my name to Mpeg Smith in honour of him.

    --
    I have been a user for about 10 years. This ends Feb 2014. The site's been ruined. I'm off. Dice, FU
  5. Terminate this! by benhocking · · Score: 2, Funny

    And once Govenor Schwarzenegger wins the presidency and these shotgun toting robots refuse to listen about a little thing called the constitution, what then? :)

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    Ben Hocking
    Need a professional organizer?
  6. Bad solution by commodoresloat · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shotguns are prone to failure. Then people will demand a re-shoot. The only verifiable solution is to equip the robots with laser beams. Frickin' laser beams, of course. On their heads.

  7. Re:A Suggestion by Moofius.the.Cow · · Score: 2, Funny

    Yeah. And we all know how No.2 Pencils are secure against that evil terrorist weapon - the Eraser.

  8. First you let machines vaccuum the floor... by jayveekay · · Score: 2, Funny

    Second you let machines count the votes...

    Third you give the machines shotguns...

    Fourth you give the machines control of SkyNet... ...and the next thing you know you're strapped down in bed in a permanent dream state virtual reality with an army of robots harvesting your nervous system for energy!

    That's the not the future I want. (Unless I'm rich and the chicks are all hot in said virtual reality.:)