Posted on 04/15/2015 4:42:21 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
AVS WinVote machines used in three presidential elections in state ‘would get an F-minus’ in security, said computer scientist who pushed for decertification
Touchscreen voting machines used in numerous elections between 2002 and 2014 used “abcde” and “admin” as passwords and could easily have been hacked from the parking lot outside the polling place, according to a state report.
The AVS WinVote machines, used in three presidential elections in Virginia, “would get an F-minus” in security, according to a computer scientist at tech research group SRI International who had pushed for a formal inquiry by the state of Virginia for close to a decade.
In a damning study published Tuesday, the Virginia Information Technology Agency and outside contractor Pro V&V found numerous flaws in the system, which had also been used in Mississippi and Pennsylvania.
Jeremy Epstein, of the Menlo Park, California, nonprofit SRI International, served on a Virginia state legislative commission investigating the voting machines in 2008. He has been trying to get them decertified ever since.
Anyone within a half mile could have modified every vote, undetected, Epstein said in a blog post. “I got to question a guy by the name of Brit Williams, who’d certified them, and I said, ‘How did you do a penetration test?’” Epstein told the Guardian, “and he said, ‘I don’t know how to do something like that’.”
Reached by phone, Williams, who has since retired, said he did not recall the incident and referred the Guardian to former colleagues at Kennesaw State University who have taken over the certification duties he used to perform for Virginia and other states.
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Sure hope the democrats don’t find out about this.
Paper ballots with a thumb print, the only way!
Such ingenious leadership from the credentialed folks. I’m impressed!
The Marching Morons
By C. M. Kornbluth
http://www.gutenberg.ca/ebooks/kornbluthcm-marchingmorons/kornbluthcm-marchingmorons-00-e.html
How sad it would be if we would have to go back to purple thumbs.
You win, hands down!
Why would you need to hack it from the parking lot, when the machines in the cities are all run by crooks?
“abcde”
Heck, many Dems already know the first three!
NOW is the time for the pubbies to quit sitting on their thumbs and do something about this.
Dems would vote 20 times each, once for each digit on their hands and feet.
What the heck, they are only elections.
Has anyone else been suspicious of the 2012 elections? I forgot which state but there was one that had electronic machines that kept registering Obama when people pressed Romney & they had to keep trying before they could cast for Romney. How many people didn’t even double check? Nothing suspicious there.
Does ANYONE think the illegals won't be allowed to vote? Why even have this election?
And weren't the votes sent to SPAIN, for f--k's sake?
Thumb prints. BRILLIANT!
Your about 15 years late in hoping. The whole point of these machines was to make cheating easy after the 2000 election.
“...the machines in the cities are all run by crooks?”
The machines are under the security control of your county election administrator or your county clerk. You vote for the county clerk and the county hires an election administrator. If you think they are crooks, why not vote for a different county clerk or ask your county commissioners the qualifications of the person they hired as a county election administrator. People are not pulled off the street to run elections.
“What the f—k are we DOING About this? I have asked this question for 12 years or more,...”
You could do something about it yourself. Go to your county clerk if he/she runs your elections, or go to your county election administrator if you have one of those, and ask how elections are held in your county regarding the security of voting machines.
You can go to your secretary of state’s website and find the election law and click on that link and read the election law yourself to see how it works in your state/county. Read how security is maintained on the machines and read how a person registers to vote - how they prove their citizenship before receiving a voter card.
Go talk to you Republican County Chairman - he is supposed to ride herd on the election administrator/county clerk to be sure your elections are fair. See if he/she is doing his/her job.
Voting Machines creating tyrants everywhere they are used.
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