Voter Confidence? from Globe and Mail....Bev H. mentioned.

[madfloridian]

http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20030725.gtjackjuly25/BNStory/Technology/

SNIP..."The source code for the software used in one voting machine was discovered on the Internet, on an unprotected FTP site belonging to Ohio-based Diebold Election Systems Inc. The software, when compiled and run in tests, showed that it appears to be the code used in the company's AccuVote-TS touch-screen terminals.

Bev Harris, a journalist and social activist, promptly detailed its faults in a book called Black Box Voting.

And those faults are horrifying.

A report by computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University and Rice University found that the voting system is "far below even the most minimal security standards."

The system relies on identity "smartcards." They're like credit cards, but savvy voters, the study found, can easily program their own, and these "homebrew" cards leave no trace...."

[Bandit]

1. Boy am I ever glad Bev is on our side.

:-)

[madfloridian]

2. Me, too. Good article from Globe and Mail.

:hi:

[Spazito]

3. madfloridian, I added your link to another thread requesting...

updates and links to news stories on this. I also noted that it was your original link. The more we work together, the more effect we can have!
:-)

[madfloridian]

6. Thanks.

This board moves so fast we need to back each other up.
:hi:

[qb]

4. "scandal even worse than what voters got in 2000"

He says that with a lot of confidence. You have to go to the foreign press to get away from the wishy washy "maybe it's a big deal, maybe it's not" angle.

[ParanoidPat]

5. drip, Drip, DRIP....

....:evilgrin:

DRIP,

DRIP,

DRIP!

:kick: