Most states don't have lever-based systems anymore. It's much easier to cheat at this than many of the paper-based alternatives.
Md. Voting System's Security Challenged
By Brigid Schulte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 25, 2003; Page B01
Exerpt....
"...A touch-screen voting system that Maryland has just agreed to buy for $55 million and install in every precinct in the state is so flawed that a 15-year-old with a modicum of computer savvy could manipulate the system and change the outcome of an election, computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University said yesterday..."
"...An analysis by the Information Security Institute suggests that voters could cast their ballots repeatedly and poll workers could tamper with the ballots --
all without detection -- on the system, which is already in place in several states..."
"Is it responsible to let people vote when they know the machines can be compromised?" said Avi Rubin, technical director of the Baltimore-based institute. "What the state of Maryland needs to do is to realize they purchased something that didn't work and ask for their money back." The machine's manufacturer, Diebold Election Systems, defended the integrity of election results and dismissed the report's findings as the concerns of those who spend too much time in the ivory tower.