Black Box Voting Blues

Newsweek ^ | November 3, 2003 | Steven Levy

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Black Box Voting Blues Electronic ballot technology makes things easy. But some computer-security experts warn of the possibility of stolen elections

By Steven Levy NEWSWEEK

Nov. 3 issue — After the traumas of butterfly ballots and hanging chad, election officials are embracing a brave new ballot: sleek, touch-screen terminals known as direct recording electronic voting systems (DRE). States are starting to replace their Rube Goldbergesque technology with digital devices like the Diebold Accu-Vote voting terminal. Georgia uses Diebolds exclusively, and other states have spent millions on such machines, funded in part by the 2002 federal Help America Vote Act. Many more terminals are on the way.

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"Some computer-security experts warn of the possibility of stolen elections."

Newsweak is afraid the GOP will do the cheating!

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Dem tricks, our worst fear!!