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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."
...voter fraud machines aren't allowed in general elections. Company's can build these shitty fraudy things, they can sell them to any foreign government and let them fraud there votes, but it is not okay to do it here(tm) and that is okay. Which is, in my opinion (hahaha), one of the best things ever! Screaming "USA USA USA" and demanding tax cuts just doesn't change anything. But having good regulations, a good supreme court and everybody paying their fair share, does. So US get your act together and ban these fraud machine crap. Whining about it bugs and flaws, thinking about asking companys to fix them, will not get you anywhere!
The Supreme Court did prevent a recount from occurring and thus changed the results of the Presidential Election in 2000
WRONG! The Florida Supreme Court allowed several recounts with several "variations" of the rules. The Gore people kept coming back over and over and over again asking for more and more rule changes such as, "If a chad is hanging by one thread, it's a vote for Gore" or "If the voter voted for more than one candidate, and one of them being Gore, it's a vote for Gore" or "If the chad for Gore's slot is dented (dimpled), then it's a vote for Gore." It was obvious that the Gore camp was going to continue asking for recounts and rule changes until they found the perfect rule set that would seal a Gore victory.
The Supreme Court ruled that the state for Florida may not have one set of rules for one district, and a different set of rules for another district. This included the amount of scrutiny each ballot received. If one county was to spend weeks investigating each and every ballot, then all counties would have to spend an equal amount of time on each of their ballots. It's called "Equal Protection Under the Law" and it's in the Constitution. Before the Supreme Court decision, the Republicans offered a statewide recount with every county given the same scrutiny as the few Democratic counties being recounted, but the Democrats refused the offer knowing that the few extra votes they could squeeze from Broward County and the Miami-Dade area would be negated by the extra votes squeezed from Little Havana and the Panhandle.
Also, several independent state wide recounts were held and when reasonable rules were applied, Bush won Florida every time. Then again, if you still don't believe the fact that Bush won Florida by now, then no amount of truth will change your mind.