U.S. digs for vote-machine links to Hugo Chávez
In the debate about the reliability of electronic voting technology, the South Florida parent company of one of the nation's leading suppliers of touch-screen voting machines is drawing special scrutiny from the U.S. government.
Federal officials are investigating whether Smartmatic, owner of Oakland, Calif.-based Sequoia Voting Systems, is secretly controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, according to two people familiar with the probe....
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/15869919 .htm
it's just such a clever hack to convice US-citizens that voting machines might not be trusted:))
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They only banned SDU-machines and will now use those from nedap, which are also proven to be unsecure: http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/Engli sh
green light for nedap:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/80316/from/ atom10 (sorry, german only, babelfish it)
U.S. digs for vote-machine links to Hugo Chávez In the debate about the reliability of electronic voting technology, the South Florida parent company of one of the nation's leading suppliers of touch-screen voting machines is drawing special scrutiny from the U.S. government. Federal officials are investigating whether Smartmatic, owner of Oakland, Calif.-based Sequoia Voting Systems, is secretly controlled by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, according to two people familiar with the probe. ...
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/15869919 .htm
it's just such a clever hack to convice US-citizens that voting machines might not be trusted :))
voting machines raised to cost per election in amsterdam from 1,6 million euros to 2,7, source: http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/76905 (german)
sorry, germans only ;)
https://berlin.ccc.de/index.php/Anti-Wahlcomputer- Petition