Activist: E-voting to be a 'train wreck'

AP via MLive.com ^ | 7/7/2004 | RACHEL KONRAD

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SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Ambushing registrars and tracking down executives at their homes and offices, a literary publicist has uncovered conflicts of interests and security flaws inside the companies that make electronic ballot machines.

Searching the Web and poring over newspaper clippings, Bev Harris has unearthed obscure arrest records, ties to conservative political groups and other embarrassing secrets of senior executives at voting companies.

Her conclusion: there will be so many problems with the more than 100,000 paperless voting terminals to be used in the November presidential election that the fiasco will dwarf Florida's hanging chad debacle of 2000.

"We have a train wreck that's definitely going to happen," Harris said. "We have conflict of interest, we've taken the checks and balances away, and we know the votes are already being miscounted fairly frequently. This is going to be huge."

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Avi Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins, concluded that any clever 15-year-old could rig the system and vote multiple times.

The dems motto:  Vote Early And Vote Often.

[Paleo Conservative]

I remember back during the primary season in 2000 how mostly DemocRATS were excited about the possibility of online and internet voting.

[Viking2002]

Idiot-proof voting: Kyptonite to the Parasite Class. By God, it's ain't 'democracy' to them if they don't have a thousand hanging chads to bleat over.

[EEDUDE]

Looks like we'll be hand counting dimpled bits and hanging bytes again this year.

[KarlInOhio]

I have no idea why the dems are complaining about this. Electronic voting is the greatest chance they have to untraceably steal elections.

The only thing I can figure is that the paranoia committee of the party hasn't been talking to the creative counting committee.

[ntnychik]

The dems have been inoculating themselves since 2000 with fake alarms of a virtual VRWC in voting machine companies. As soon as there is any voting controversy, real or contrived, the hysterical finger-pointers will say, "See, we've been telling you for years the Republicans cheat." Truth doesn't enter into their playbook. Politics=war by other means.

[lepton]

Ah, yet again devious conspiracies by conservatives will somehow allow only liberals to mess up their voting districts.

[Morgan's Raider]

...ties to conservative political groups and other embarrassing secrets of senior executives at voting companies.

Embarrassing? No bias at the AP, nosiree...