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  • Why is Hugo Chávez Involved With U.S. Voting Machines?

    10/09/2008 1:46:49 PM PDT · by BIOCHEMKY · 28 replies · 822+ views
    Real Clear Politics ^ | March 28, 2006 | Richard Brand
    The greater threat to our nation's security comes not from Dubai and its pro-Western government, but from Venezuela, where software engineers with links to the leftist, anti-American regime of Hugo Chávez are programming electronic voting machines that will soon power U.S. elections. Congress spent two weeks overreacting to news that Dubai Ports World would operate several American ports, including Miami's, but a better target for their hysteria would be the acquisition by Smartmatic International of California-based Sequoia Voting Systems, whose machines serve millions of U.S. voters. That Smartmatic -- which has been accused by Venezuela's opposition of helping Chávez rig...
  • Report finds e-vote promise, problems

    10/22/2005 9:40:59 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 4 replies · 131+ views
    Oakland Tribune ^ | 10/22/05 | Ian Hoffman
    In a report released Friday, the investigative arm of Congress found that fully electronic voting machines hold promise for U.S. elections but still have security and reliability problems. E-voting failures in elections have been a problem in California, and the state's experiences are mentioned several times in the latest report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Analysts for the GAO found that crucial vote-recording and tallying files could be altered, that voting software often had weak or nonexistent password protections and that manufacturers had installed unapproved software in several places, including California. Yet fixing those problems could be years away....
  • E-Vote Machines Face Audit

    08/12/2003 2:02:52 PM PDT · by freepatriot32 · 3 replies · 94+ views
    wired news ^ | 8.9.03 | kim zetter
    After weeks of defending itself against charges of bad programming and lax security, Diebold Election Systems is facing an independent, third-party audit of the software for its touch-screen voting machines. Maryland Gov. Robert L. Erhlich Jr. ordered the review after researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Rice University released a report (PDF) last month revealing numerous programming flaws and security vulnerabilities in the source code for Diebold's AccuVote-TS voting machines.