Monkeying around with electronic voting

[donkey_hokey]

In lieu of a real post, I give you this link (I saw it, and couldn't reist passing it on):

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So, you've probably heard the rumors about how easy it is to hack a voting machine.......

This video will show you exactly how easy it to change votes on one of the Diebold machines

Comments

[generalripper]

*scratches head*

I dunno. I know it's easy to hack the machines - but I thought you needed a bluetooth adapter to do it. If what the video says is true, it seems to me like they shipped the damned things with some diagnostic/maintenance features still enabled. Idiots.

Of course, that could have just been the rush to make the machines available after Florida 2000. When you don't give people time to work the bugs out of their solution, stuff like this happens.

Or it could just be Big Brother. The lack of a paper trail, and the resistance to implementing one, has always really bothered me.

[donkey_hokey]

Yes, it's very bothersome. However, it does make me feel less guilty about pulling my name from the voting roll.

[thewayne]

From what I understand, they're running Microsoft Access on Win CE. Altering the results would pose little difficulty.

[donkey_hokey]

If this is true, it's mindbogglingly stupid.

[thewayne]

You won't find me disagreeing!

Yeah, it's an insanely stupid, excuse me, stooopid platform to run something so important on. But, as the president of Diebold said, "We'll deliver Ohio to the President." And they did. One way or another. The question is, how many other elections had fradulent results? And the problem is that we'll never know, because Diebold convinced electoral commissions that nobody needs an auditable paper trail.