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CIA Expert Decries E-Voting Security

Posted by Soulskill on from the only-vote-that-matters-is-the-cia-assassin's dept.

ISoldat53 sends this quote from McClatchy DC: "The CIA, which has been monitoring foreign countries' use of electronic voting systems, has reported apparent vote-rigging schemes in Venezuela, Macedonia and Ukraine and a raft of concerns about the machines' vulnerability to tampering. Appearing last month before a US Election Assistance Commission field hearing in Orlando, Fla., a CIA cybersecurity expert suggested that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his allies fixed a 2004 election recount, an assertion that could further roil US relations with the Latin leader. ... Stigall said that most Web-based ballot systems had proved to be insecure. The commission has been criticized for giving states more than $1 billion to buy electronic equipment without first setting performance standards. Numerous computer-security experts have concluded that US systems can be hacked, and allegations of tampering in Ohio, Florida and other swing states have triggered a campaign to require all voting machines to produce paper audit trails."

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  1. And Democrats Rejoice by Clipless · · Score: 5, Funny

    Looks like the old phrase "Vote Early, Vote Often" is going to become an automated process.
    That should save a lot of people some serious time and money

  2. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    [...]a CIA cybersecurity expert suggested that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and his allies fixed a 2004 election recount, an assertion that could further roil US relations with the Latin leader

    Why? Wouldn't it bring them closer? After all, they've got something in common now! =)

  3. Hugo Chavez again? by One+Brave+Prune · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are we out of Iraqi oil already?