Purple inks seems to work well........
Easy to control any information via electronics. Paper sounds good to me. It worked for over 200 years. Don’t fix something that ain’t broke.
SOME of them, anyway!
I saw this elsewhere.
Yeah. “Simple”, provided you have physical access to the machine and can disassemble it without leaving a trace, etc.
By that standard, an ATM is “simple” to crack too.
I think we should break out the purple dye and see how the dims fare in the next election.
Purple inks seems to work well........
This scenario would make a good pre-election movie.
So anyone WITH ACCESS to the machine could do it? Looks like controlling access is the key. Besides, potentially you would have to access hundreds of the machines to make a national election difference.
ALTERNATE HEADLINE: “Dems confident in regaining House, keeping Senate, White House”
This can and has been done with ATM machines, card swipe terminals in supermarkets, etc.
In actual practice taking the voting machines apart and hacking them involves breaking in to and working for hours in government buildings without being noticed, creating replacement seals that can pass the inspection of poll workers, etc. It is more of a movie plot than a practical idea.
So why did we spend taxpayer money on the research in the first place?
Oh for crying out loud.
Far easier for a single, high-school dropout campaign worker to simply throw a box of paper ballots in a dumpster.
If you have (1) unlimited access to the machine, (2) and can take the case apart and (3) can solder a daughtecard onto the circuit board -which is obvious for later fraud investigation- and can (4) control thousands of machines in real time to “blank the screen and change the vote” from only yards away from dozens? thousands? of polling stations....
Really? This is a concern?
The private market is so much more cost effective than govt. The govt spends billions in food stamps to accomplish the same thing.
I imagine ACORN and SEIU knew this in 2008 and just didn't do it enough in 2010. We have to watch in 2012!
This is why leftist (and their friends across the aisle) demanded computerized voting machines after Gore was foiled in Florida. Anyone with a brain knew they could fix election with computerized elections! The Chad stuff was BS.
Purple ink is a winning idea.
Imagine that...
There was a frequent guest on Art Bell’s show, CoasttoCoastam who warned about the vulnerability of voting machines since 2000 or so. She works for an computer auditing firm and hired someone to hack into the voting machines. I remember being dismayed about how easy it was to alter the most important citizen power, the right to vote.
Nobody seemed to care when the Demos in Washington and SF produced box after box of “found” ballots in the 2004, 2006, and 2008 elections.