Oh, for the days of hanging chads…..
November 2nd, 2006
This midterm election is promising to be
a tragedy of technical errors….
check out this article from Ars Technica:
Primary and early e-voting problems point to gathering storm:
As we move toward the November mid-terms, we’re beginning to a more detailed and depressing picture
of exactly what we’re up against as a nation in less than a week: two major new reports from independent research groups
detail the myriad security breaches, and procedural and technical problems in the 2006 Ohio primaries;
stories from early voting in Texas indicate that the paperless DREs in at least two counties may have a partisan bias;
another major new report from the University of Connecticut details a whole raft of security vulnerabilities
in Diebold’s optical scan voting machines; finally, BlackBoxVoting.org has released “push this, pull hereâ€
instructions for multiple voting on a Sequoia DRE, no hacking skills necessary.
heck, on one of the Diebold machines, you can even
vote multiple times just by using two Post-It Notes
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