[HiTech RedNeck]

Could there be a way of registering the same vote on two or more independent counting machines.

[kingu]

Could there be a way of registering the same vote on two or more independent counting machines.

Sure, if a voter wants to commit fraud, it's not all that difficult. Look at the senate election in North(?) Dakota recently where several people found, when they went to vote, that they were marked down as having received an absentee ballot. When I was a poll monitor recently, I could have easily have voted at each polling place here in California, because we don't require identification.

Actually, as a poll monitor, it would have been supremely easy. I had a list of people registered to vote who do not normally make it out to the polls, and part of the Get out the Vote program was to see if they did vote, and if they didn't, to go put a vote reminder on their door.

I had their name, their address and could easily have voted for at least one or two of them at each polling place. Electronic voting systems aren't built to prevent voter fraud, but to ensure that an accurate tally is made.

My view is that if the machine prints out a ballot, I can see if the machine recorded my votes right, and that ballot should go into a box so that there is source material to examine if the vote is called into question.

[GregD]

Avi Rubin's report suggests that a kid in a garage with $100 of materials (or something like that) and a set of simple instructions couild easily assemble smart cards that could (potentially) allow multiple votes in a single machine. You just plug in the counterfeit card, vote, and vote again...