Hack the Vote
Ari Berman
So much for ballot security.
Three Princeton University professors designed and tested software to
hack a Diebold electronic voting machine. Watch the video.
On Huffington Post, Marty Kaplan demonstrated how to trick a Diebold
machine within a matter of minutes using a screwdriver, flash card and
basic computer knowledge. Watch the video.
An election could easily be stolen, either through malicious hacking
(see above), or plain ol' stupidity (see below).
Maryland experienced widespread problems with electronic voting machines
in their primary elections on Tuesday, when poll workers forgot the
plastic cards needed to activate the voting machines, election judges
didn't know how to use the technology and election results didn't
transmit electronically from precincts to the central elections office.
"It was chaos," state Senator-elect Jamie Raskin said. "It was Florida.
It was Mexico. It was your worst nightmare."
In the upcoming '06 elections, 80 percent of voters will cast their
ballots on electronic voting machines. We better hope these videos and
results are not a precursor of things to come.
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