Ohio Study Confirms Voting Systems Vulnerabilities

Posted by Zonk on Friday December 14, 2007 @11:22PM from the never-thought-i'd-be-longing-for-paper dept.

bratgitarre writes "A comprehensive study of electronic voting systems (PDF) by vendors ES&S, Hart InterCivic and Premier (formerly Diebold) found that 'all of the studied systems possess critical security failures that render their technical controls insufficient to guarantee a trustworthy election'. In particular, they note all systems provide insufficiently protection against threats from election insiders, do not follow well-known security practices, and have 'deeply flawed software maintenance' practices." Some of these machines are the ones California testers found fault with last week.

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Re:Voting is a joke on basic principles! by Homology · 2007-12-15 09:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Sorry, you obviously are a product of the modern educational system. The Founding Fathers actually thought this through, that is why the Constitution is written the way it is, with the various provisions and the Bill of Rights. Or as Winston Churchill once said, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the other ways that have been tried."
Yeah, several your "founding fathers" where slave owners...