US E-Voting System Cracked in Less than 48 Hours

[We Want Peace]

Researchers at the University of Michigan have reported that . . . . "Within 48 hours of the system going live, we had gained near complete control of the election server", the researchers wrote in a paper that has now been released. "We successfully changed every vote and revealed almost every secret ballot." The hack was only discovered after about two business days – and most likely only because the intruders left a visible trail on purpose.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/US-e-voting-system-cracked-in-less-than-48-hours-1463881.html

[We Want Peace]

1. Where are the naysayers insisting this election was all counted fairly?

Who set up this system?

How can you be so sure they would not use it to their advantage?

[PeaceNikki]

2. Is that you, Bev?

[We Want Peace]

3. oh wow, good one!

you got me!!

[We Want Peace]

4. optical scanners are easily manipulated, but the Koch brothers and Karl rove wouldn't do that!

Wisconsin votes on mostly paper ballots --- are tabulated by computer optical-scan systems like the ones in Palm Beach County, FL which, in March of this year, had named several losing candidates to be the "winners". And like the ones in New York City which, in 2010, managed to toss out thousands of valid votes, including as many as 70% in one South Bronx precinct. And like the ones in Oakland County, Michigan where officials found the same machines failed to count the same ballots the same way twice in 2008. And like the ones in Leon County, FL which, in 2005, were hacked to entirely flip the results of a mock election.

In Palm Beach County, FL the failure was discovered during a state mandated post-election spot-check of 2% of the paper ballots. In New York City, it took nearly two years before the failures were discovered after the New York Daily News was able to examine the paper ballots via a public records request. In Oakland County, MI, election officials were lucky enough to discover the failure during pre-election testing. And in Leon County, FL, the hacker --- a computer security expert --- revealed the op-scan system flaw he exploited to flip the results of the election in an Emmy-nominated HBO documentary.

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9332#more-9332

[GarroHorus]

5. Wow, I had no idea that they used online voting yesterday

OOPS, they didn't, so that study has nothing to do with any election anywhere as it was a study of an online voting system.

[We Want Peace]

6. the ballots are counted on optical scan machines

why do you answer posts when you clearly do not understand the topic?

[GarroHorus]

7. You are the one who fials to understand the study you cite.

It was an ONLINE VOTING SYSTEM The front end is exposed to the internet for voting. The central tabulator was hacked through the front end that is exposed to the internet.

This is how hackers get into anything. They must first have a means of entry.

There was NO online voting system in place in Wisconsin yesterday. That means there was no means of entry to hack the vote. The back end tabulators (yes, plural, one for each district) may be the same or close to the same software, but that is meaningless because the system for voting is not the same, hence there is no way to hack the central tabulators.

So go away, educate yourself, then start posting again. Either that, or you've been trolling all along.

[Scuba]

8. There was plenty of "means of entry to hack the vote". But then you already knew that, didn't you?