Posted on 12/02/2006 3:06:34 AM PST by lifelong_republican
"WASHINGTON Paperless electronic voting machines in widespread use across the country may be vulnerable to errors or sabotage and cannot be made secure, a draft report by a federal agency said.
The report by researchers at the influential National Institute of Standards and Technology said the paperless voting machines - essentially notebook computers programmed to display ballot images and record voter choices - "in practical terms cannot be made secure."
"Many people, especially in the computer engineering and security community, assert that the (voting machines) are vulnerable to undetectable errors as well as malicious software attacks," the report said..."
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Built by commies and endorsed by the 'Rats. Whose happy now?
It's what I've been saying for some time.
When will this be reported by the DBM?
Machine read paper ballots (NOT punch cards). The best of both worlds. I don't understand this fascination with "touch-pad voting" that seems to have gripped state voting commissioners.
only question would be whether or not they actually want such a thing... which at this point I firmly believe they do not.
Solution?
paper ballot(if it ain't broke, don't fix it)
What is wrong with the good old lever type of machine?
Shoot. Get the pols out of it. Let us vote at our ATM machines. I trust the banking system better than any one day makeshift operation staffed by old volunteers. It is already regulated, audited and running smoothly.
I keep reading about voting problems at these machines.
A polling place gets an average of 8 machines from what I can tell. Someone would have to either attack the machines before they are installed, or change the data after the votes are accumulated.
The machines aren't on a network so they cannot be hacked. No one is sending out thousands of hackers to break in to a secure location, open the machine, change the information and get out.
So the only scenario is the program that gets pre loaded is corrupted, which again, you have candidates, issues and other things to be concerned about.
Unless there is a major conspiracy which involves hundreds of people, I am afraid that this whole voting machine manipulation is a myth.
If Christian/conservatives just crawl in a hole and cover up, then America has qwuit being America!!!
I'm with you. Perfect mix of simplicity and technology.
No real possible audit trail. Machine-scanned paper ballots are the best possible solution--as the voted ballots are sealed inside the machines, and can be counted directly by humans in the event of a recount. No "all electronic" solution will EVER be as secure.
The chances of human error are so much greater than machine error that hand recounts only appeal is that it is so time consuming people just give up and accept the results, no matter what they are. How many times did we used to count and recount money to make sure we were right? 3, I think. Imagine three manual recounts.
"Unless there is a major conspiracy which involves hundreds of people, I am afraid that this whole voting machine manipulation is a myth."
The line voice of reason on a thread where FReepers parrot a probable troll who only posts voting machine articles. DUers are lauging about this thread.
"No real possible audit trail."
?? Except for the paper that prints after you vote.
"Never say Never" statements like that are the reason why auditing exists as a profession, and why IT auditors always talk about reasonable assurance, management appetite for risk, and the need to almost always never say Never or Always.
paper ballot(if it ain't broke, don't fix it)
You really want the FloriDUH voters to vote on butterfly ballots again? We'll have "hanging chads" in every election from now on, and so many disenfranchised voters.
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