Spot The Unattended, Unguarded E-Voting Machines
from the take-your-time dept
Whenever reports come out about e-voting machine vulnerabilities, a common response from the various e-voting companies is that to exploit any of those vulnerabilities, someone would have to spend a significant amount of time with the e-voting machine, undoubtedly raising suspicions. That might be true on election day, but what about before election day? Back in 2006, Ed Felten randomly noticed that in the days before election day, he came across a bunch of e-voting machines just stored in a hallway, waiting for election day. This should have made people concerned, and convinced them to better protect these machines. Yet, here we are on Super Tuesday, and Ed Felten has a post noting that, once again, it was easy to come across totally unattended e-voting machines. He notes that he stood next to one batch of machines for 15 minutes, plenty of time to have mucked with the machine (not that he did), and not a single person came by. Is it any wonder that these e-voting machines are undermining confidence in our elections?
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Good God, No!
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The Ron Paul campaign have a strong robust presence on the internet not to mention that Ron Paul himself is fond of the internet.
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I challenge the premise
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In the county where I live, we use marking pens on paper ballots, then slip the paper into a counting box as we leave the polling place. It's got an electronic element, the sealed box, but the votes can be easily recounted.
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technology, security, delusions
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Bob, you and I make 2
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WOW... I mean... WOW!
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But as he doesn't see women and gays as equal humans, he doesn't stand a chance for me.
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Unattended Voting Machines
As to the computer voting machines, the PC Card is what makes it work. So it's the program and the security of the pccard you have to worry about.
I think KY has the best type of machine when it comes to the computer type in that it prints to paper and to memory when you press the red button to register your selection.
The best type of voting machine would be an optical hard card where you darken your selection with a supplied pen and the computer tabulation code is audited.
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Are you sure?
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KY makes voting machines now? (insert witty joke here)
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Or, why doesn't Lew Moore visit techdirt?
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Voting machine security
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Democrats would have to change their theme song to "Extreme Ways" by Moby.
Oh baby, oh baby
Then it fell apart, it fell apart
Oh baby, oh baby
Like it always does, always does
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Rules only apply to the peons, citizen.
GEt with Comrade Hillary’s Progrom!
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Internet Voting
{dripping with sarcasm}
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That being said, here is a question that came to my mind after viewing those pictures. Sure, he was walking around the voting machines and could have done something with them because no one was around, but he was in a school.
HE WAS UNATENDED IN A SCHOOL!
He could have planted bombs in that school. He could have hidden guns in a school. He could have done anything he wanted in that school. Where was school security?
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Lighten up, I think switching the keys on the computer keyboards was pretty funny. The pardons, not so funny.
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It all adds up to nothing
primaries in this cycle is akin to voting on
which flavor of poop you want rammed down
your gullet.
When we get candidates that truely differ on
substansive issues voting might be worth the
effort once more. It's not mush effort but
In my opinion it's pointless.
The voting machines are the least important
issue.
Even so if we moved to range voting, where each
person votes for all the candidates in order of
preference and the candiate with the highest
score wins. And if non-party affiliated candidates
could be fielded, I would vote because it would
be truely equitable. Unlike the horribly broken
system in play now.
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Until third and forth or independents can really join the races there will be no really trustworthy candidates or true democracy.
For now its just a "pick your poison" kind of situation.
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Whoa
What was the benefit of using the electronic ones again? I've forgotten.
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Who said this?
A. Karl Marx
B. Adolph Hitler
C. Joseph Stalin
D. None of the above
2) “It’s time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, and for the few...and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity.”
A. Lenin
B. Mussolini
C. Idi Amin
D. None of the Above
3) “(We)...can’t just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people.”
A. Nikita Khrushev
B. Jose f Goebbels
C. Boris Yeltsin
D. None of the above
4) “We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own...in order to create this common ground.”
A. Mao Tse Dung
B. Hugo Chavez
C. Kim Jong Il
D. None of the above
5) “I certainly think the free-market has failed.”
A. Karl Marx
B. Lenin
C. Molotov
D. None of the above
6) “I think it’s time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector in (the) entire economy that they are being watched.”
A. Pinochet
B. Milosevic
C. Saddam Hussein
D. None of the above
Answers:
(1) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/29/2004
(2) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 5/29/2007
(3) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(4) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(5) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 6/4/2007
(6) D. None of the above. Statement was made by Hillary Clinton 9/2/2005
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e-Voting
Personally, I have been taught many things here, and I will tell you that INTEGRITY and HONESTY is what this company strives for in everyone of its employees. I like that in a company so I am hoping to stay here for a long time. STOP harrassing and accusing these companies of something that is only hearsay OR WITHOUT MERIT, which is what anyone who yells, "foul" will do and you will immediately accept it as the truth. BLAH! Most of the time, its an outside poll-worker who is the problem and not the product itself! SHAME ON YOU!
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Machine security?
My girlfriend, who volunteers at nearly every election, has to pick up a machine a few days before the election and has to keep it STORED IN OUR HOUSE until the election. This is actually very common for election volunteers (at least in the area I live in). Think about that for just a second, because there isn't very much in terms of safeguards to keep election volunteers honest. They are usually struggling just to get enough volunteers for the election. So it really isn't that much of a stretch of the imagination to think that someone could sign up as an election volunteer and have complete open private access to the machine for a few days before the election in order to tamper with it.
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