Convicted Felons Worked for E-voting Companies

News Max | Rachel Konrad

[Andy_Stephenson]

"SAN FRANCISCO - A manufacturer of electronic voting machines has employed at least five convicted felons as managers, according to critics demanding more stringent background checks for people responsible for voting machine software."

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"Andy Stephenson, a Democratic candidate for secretary of state in Washington, conducted a 10-day investigation in Seattle and Vancouver, where the men were convicted."

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"Computer programmers say software bugs, hackers or electrical outages could cause more than 50,000 touch-screen machines used in precincts nationwide to delete or alter votes."

[Andy_Stephenson]

http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2003/12/18/223758.shtml

[philetus]

Hillery's demanding a paper trail.

[Ophiucus]

The computer/touch screen voting devices are tailor made for wide spread vote fraud. Why do you think DemoRats are pushing so hard for them.

I was doing so consultation work for a software company when the idea was put forth. I sat in on a programmer's meeting where in 15 minutes, they outlined 8-9 ways to rip off votes at any time with these systems and how they would never be fully secure to a decent hacker.

[bikerman]

That ass will leave a large paper trail.

[Andy_Stephenson]

her legislation is bullshit.

[DustyMoment]

Sorry, the fact that convicted felons worked on these e-voting machines and the ease with which the results can be altered doesn't match up. IMO, there is no correlation between the convicted felons and the potential for fraud.

Given the existing state of computer/network technology, systems that do not provide an immediate local and/or mirrored offsite paper trail are open to fraud, regardless of who developed them. The technology itself is simply not bullet proof enough today for e-voting.