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Politics > Politics-USA |
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"Harry Hope" |
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15 Feb 2004 08:11:04 PM |
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Voting chaos looms for November election |
From The Independent, 2/16/04:
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=491730
Voting chaos looms for American election
By Steve Connor in Seattle
The electronic voting system designed for the forthcoming American
election is fundamentally flawed and could undermine the
trustworthines of the entire US democratic process, a scientist has
told the annual meeting of the American Association for the
Advancement of Science.
Paper ballots can be scrutinised to ensure they have not been misread
or tampered with but electronic votes recorded only as computer code
cannot be checked to see the true intention of the voter, said David
Dill, professor of computer science at Stanford University in
California.
One in four voters in the US presidential election in November will
use touch-sensitive machines rather than putting a cross on a ballot
paper.
"The system is in crisis. A quarter of the American public are voting
on machines where there's very little protection of their votes. I
don't think there's any reason to trust these machines," he said.
Such a system is even vulnerable to fraud byemployees of the machine's
manufacturers, who could rewrite the software to rig an election he
said.
"It is technically not difficult to do if you bribe a programmer at a
major manufacturer. If you ask how likely it is that it could be done,
the answer is 100 per cent. If you ask how likely it is to be done, I
can't answer that," he added.
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Looks like we've got ourselves another Supreme Court appointment
comin' up.
Harry
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| User: "Mani Deli" |
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| Title: Re: Voting chaos looms for November election |
16 Feb 2004 11:18:00 AM |
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2004 02:11:04 GMT, Harry Hope <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com>
wrote:
"The system is in crisis. A quarter of the American public are voting
on machines where there's very little protection of their votes. I
don't think there's any reason to trust these machines," he said.
Such a system is even vulnerable to fraud byemployees of the machine's
manufacturers, who could rewrite the software to rig an election he
said.
"It is technically not difficult to do if you bribe a programmer at a
major manufacturer. If you ask how likely it is that it could be done,
the answer is 100 per cent. If you ask how likely it is to be done, I
can't answer that," he added.
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Looks like we've got ourselves another Supreme Court appointment
comin' up.
Harry
Looks more like a total end to democracy!
No skill no art!
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