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CONCORD, NH - A computer programmer who has raised red flags for a number of years about the hackability of some electronic voting machines, including the optical scanning machines used in New Hampshire, has been named as the state's representative for the Windham 2020 election audit. Harri Hursti, the co-founder of ROMmon and a computer scientist from Finland, has been chosen by Secretary of State Bill Gardner and New Hampshire Attorney General John Formella. Formella and Gardner informed Windham Town Counsel Bernard Campbell as well as Mark Lindeman, the acting-co-director of Verified Voting, who was chosen by the Windham Board...

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,...