Posted on 09/29/2011 4:24:20 PM PDT by george76
U.S. government researchers are warning that someone could sneak an inexpensive piece of electronics into e-voting machines like those to be used in the next national election and then remotely change votes after they have been cast.
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Basically, when a voter pushes a button to record his or her votes electronically, the remote hijacker could use a Radio Frequency remote control to intercept that communication, change the votes, and then submit the fraudulent votes for recording.
The researchers uncovered similar problems with Sequoia e-voting systems in 2009.
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Uh, George76, why are you posting this left wing garbage? This showed up at DU last night. If you go to the article and follow the links and do some googling you will find it will take you to an old report of an old machine that someone took apart.
Yes, if you steal the voting machines, and re-wire them so that you can remotely program them, and then bring them back, you can remotely program them.
They should make the tallying algorithm open source so that it can be checked by the people.
November 6, 2012 headline: “Obama wins 99% of all votes”
At any rate it gets you looking in the wrong direction.
Vote fraud is primarily accomplished by absentee ballots, early ballots, and “found ballots”. Having lots of fake registrations makes it easier to do all these other things.
You can also pass out free tobacco and beer to the Bowery residents.
Who needs high technology? Sometimes you just want to stick to traditional methods.
More likely so the NY Times can publish "Republicans win election. Untraceable cheating probable cause." This story is to spread doubt about the election results since it is looking more likely that Obama will lose.
I could show a preschooler how to cheat with a paper ballot.
My guess is the units have a serial port. Probably not hard to bridge. Hell, this isn’t rocket science.
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