Angry Robot

Insecure Voting Machines

The leading US voting machine supplier, Diebold, makes touch-screen systems so insecure that “a 10-year-old can rig an election”. That, and the company’s CEO is a major Bush fundraiser. (get the Salon day pass, and then you may need to re-enter the link, or re-click it here)

4 comments on "Insecure Voting Machines"

  1. Roy says:
    September 24, 2003 at 5:12 pm

    I honestly don’t understand America anymore. More to the point, Where The Fuck Is The Opposition??

  2. D says:
    September 24, 2003 at 11:48 pm

    I guess the lesson here would be DON’T PRIVATIZE ELECTIONS. But yeah, that something like this isn’t provoking a nationwide outcry boggles the mind.

  3. Charles Stuart says:
    September 26, 2003 at 5:45 am

    there’s a good discussion about this over at slashdot.org.

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1235245&mode=nested&tid=103&tid=99

    and one more –

    http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/25/012242&mode=nested&tid=126&tid=172

  4. D says:
    September 26, 2003 at 8:35 am

    Interesting that slashdot people, computer enthusiasts one and all, have more or less agreed that some sort of paper trail needs to be involved in the voting system. Thanks, Charles -and BTW, I dig your feeds page.

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