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Man-In-the-Middle Remote Attack On Diebold Voting Machines
An anonymous reader tips news of a vulnerability discovered in the Diebold Accuvote voting system, which could be used to alter voting results without leaving evidence of tampering. Quoting Salon:
"[T]he Argonne team's attack required no modification, reprogramming, or even knowledge, of the voting machine's proprietary source code. ... The team's video demonstrates how inserting the inexpensive electronic device into the voting machine can offer a "bad guy" virtually complete control over the machine. A cheap remote control unit can enable access to the voting machine from up to half a mile away. ... The video shows three different types of attack, each demonstrating how the intrusion developed by the team allows them to take complete control of the Diebold touch-screen voting machine. They were able to demonstrate a similar attack on a DRE system made by Sequoia Voting Systems as well."
Sure, and allow the kind of MASSIVE voter-intimidation of Tammaney Hall in New York City that went on in the 19th Century? Secret ballot was brought in FOR A REASON!
Go back to paper, it takes longer, but is better accountability.
Why "representatives from each of the parties"? Why not "who wants to attend can attend"?
That's how it works for most elections anyway. If you want to watch the election, go to the voting hall and sit there. Watch the empty voting boxes being sealed. Watch the breaking fo the seal for the count. Watch the count. Watch the signing of the count sheet and the resealing of the voting boxes. Put your own seal on the boxes too, if you want. Accompagne the car transporting the voting boxes to the central voting office. etc.pp.
If enough people do this in enough voting districts, large scale fraud is nearly impossible. That's how the people of the former communist East Germany were able to prove in court the voting fraud at least in the last "election"s in 1989 - enough people were at the voting halls, watched the procedure, and took notes of the results, compared them with the official results as announced the next day and found discrepancies.