Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

plasmacutter writes to let us know about the new article by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. in Rolling Stone, following up on his "Was the 2004 Election Stolen?" (slashdotted here). Kennedy recounts the sorry history of electronic voting so far in this country — and some of the incidents will be new even to this clued-in crowd. (Had you heard about the CERT advisory on an undocumented backdoor account in a Diebold vote-tabulating database — crediting Black Box Voting?) Kennedy's reporting is bolstered by the accounts of a Diebold insider who has gone on record with his concerns. From the article: 'Chris Hood remembers the day in August 2002 that he began to question what was really going on in Georgia... "It was an unauthorized patch, and they were trying to keep it secret from the state," Hood told me. "We were told not to talk to county personnel about it. I received instructions directly from [president of Diebold election unit Bob] Urosevich...' According to Hood, Diebold employees altered software in some 5,000 machines in DeKalb and Fulton counties, the state's largest Democratic strongholds. The tally in Georgia that November surprised even the most seasoned political observers. (Hint: Republicans won.)

Comments

Re:America?

[mencomenco]

By the time this crowd is done we'll be eating our tinfoil, not wearing it.

Not really

[Anonymous Coward]

We still have to

1. Increase the size of our concentration camps.
2. Find a final solution for all those that we are holding.
3. Find a way to make sure that more power goes to W. before the next election (easy enough).
4. Declare war on our neighbor Mexico who is flooding our country, controlling our banks, and heading us towards ruin (they will have to be included in the final solution).
5. Create a treaty with Canada saying that we will not invade them, and then go ahead and invade because they have energy.

Yeah, it is not over. We are on track for repeating history all over again. SO many loyal nazis^h^h^h^h^hrepublicans.

Re:why liberals lose

[linguizic]

It really says something about Bush's charisma when he has to steal elections from both Gore and Kerry.

Re:two words.

[Kamineko]

I don't really care about apathy that much.

Re:As soon as you have people willing to cheat..

[chgros]

In that case, might I recommend that Americans bring in the Swiss in order that they may have a supervised election run by an impartial third party?
relevant link...

Re:Diebold ATMs?

[Joe The Dragon]

The Nevada Gaming Commission rejected Diebold voting machines

Re:As soon as you have people willing to cheat..

[Reality Master 101]

First step - paper trail, paper trail, paper trail !

I'm all in favor of the paper trail, I'm just astounded that there are people who think Diebold would 1) fix an election and risk bringing down the whole company, 2) find employees willing to make the code changes and risk jail, 3) find people willing install the changes and risk jail, 4) be able to do it on a large enough scale to make a difference, and 4) be able to keep the entire conspiracy totally silent.

Re: Will the Next Election Be Hacked?

[chawly]

My wife's grandfather just refuses to discuss it. Of course he being dead those many years may have something to do with this.

Re:If it's this easy....

[ELiTeUI]

Better than that : 100% Libertarian.

Re:News for Nerds No Longer

[OverlordQ]

The Republicans are destroying the country, the environment, and the Earth. Not the Democrats. So get over it.

How the *fuck* did this get modded Insightful? Trying to rub it in our faces that Slashdot panders to the Liberal crowd? If somembody said "The Democrats are destroying the country." It'd get downmomdded into oblivion.

Just like this comment will get down modded into oblivion since it critizies liberals. Liberals are all about Free Speech, unless you disagree with them, then they try to keep you quiet.