I hope this post will survive... :-)
Interesting.
We built several hundred voting machine tables for a large suburban county recently, each holds 3 machines while they are in the quarantine warehouse. We were allowed access to touch-up paint etc. after delivery. I wondered what a James Bond might have been able to achieve...
Fortunately, ours is a solid red state.
Before an election, voting machines are supposed to be locked in a room with only the sheriff having a key. If he is on the ballot, the county judge has the key. The machines are delivered to polling places by law eforcement where the election judge is responsible for the safety of the machines.
It sounds like the people with legal control over the safety of the machines, is where the breakdown is. These electronic guys should never be near a machine unless they are voting. Voting machines should never be out in the open where people could get to them. The county is the culprit here by not following the law regarding safety of voting machines.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR3A9rG022M
Florida Voting Machine
sfl
I had a sudden vision of someone coming up with an arcade game “Hack the Election” — you think that’ll catch on? Could be single-player or multiple-player mode. Watch the kids line up with their rolls of quarters.
Unfortunately the politician this guy was working for was a Republican.
Also,
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9220356/Argonne_researchers_hack_Diebold_e_voting_system_
Computerized voting machines and networks INVITE fraud. There is no high tech solution to this. High tech solutions just inspire high tech workarounds.
Low tech is the only solution. Use only hand marked/punched paper ballots and count the ballots with machines that are mechanical (electric motors are OK) and maybe optical, with NO programmable components and NO networking.