Posted on 12/20/2005 9:28:57 AM PST by ConservativeMind
A FINNISH security expert has proved to the supervisor of elections in Leon County Florida that it is a doddle to hack Diebold voting machines.
Harri Hursti took part in a fake election in Leon County using what Diebold calls unhackable technology.
At the beginning of the test election the memory card programmed by Harri Hursti was inserted into an Optical Scan Diebold voting machine. Hursti had pre-loaded the memory card with plus and minus votes.
The eight ballots were run through the optical scan machine. Correct results should have been: Yes:2 ; No:6 However, just as Hursti had planned, the results tape read: Yes:7 ; No:1
To be fair to Diebold, the Hursti Hack requires a moderate level of inside access, however it does not require a password and it is the same level of access given thousands of poll workers across the USA.
More here.
Yours is the fifth or sixth reply that I received from residents of other states saying they used the same system. So perhaps I was wrong and that method of voting is spreading. It certainly is simple and I suspect a lot cheaper than any touch screen voting system.
Actually, they love paper ballots. Dems have mastered rigging elections with those.
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