Wired - Time to Recall E-Vote Machines? Hackers Take a Look!

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Mon, Oct 6, 2003 4:33PM

This is pretty good - they report on a training session in Alameda County and go into the details of how the machines could be compromised in the days leading up to the election.

As Californians head to the polls on Tuesday, voters in at least one county will cast their ballots electronically on machines that have been shown to be flawed.

Election officials around the country have been switching to new computerized polling machines with the hope of avoiding a repeat of the Florida debacle over punch-card voting that marred the 2000 presidential election.

But a training session for poll workers in Alameda County suggests problems other than hanging chads could surface this time around.

For more information: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,...

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Mon, Oct 6, 2003 7:26PM

It would be great if a geek or two really figure out how to hack these machines and cause a severe irregularity in at least one district and make hundreds of votes switch over to Angelyne or something.
I know that at my residence, there are about 7 people registered who left or were evicted, and anyone could easily get an absentee ballot in their name.

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§it has been done...

by Alex (argiesf [at] yahoo.com)

Tue, Nov 4, 2003 1:00AM

I was listening to NPR and it seems that hackers have been able to get into those programs and they say that the programs are obsolete. People can vote many times in one machine. Cheers!

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