Reply #7: Here's the other one... seems to side with the state.. sigh... [View All]

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http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_4370714

State goes to bat for vote machines
Officials defend in court the electronic devices that plaintiffs claim can be hacked. That's unlikely, election authorities says.

"State officials defended their approval of four brands of electronic voting machines for Colorado in district court Wednesday, saying that at least 18 other states have also approved the machines and that fears of hackers and fraud are overstated.

The state is trying to fend off a lawsuit by 13 citizens claiming state officials improperly certified the machines without adequate documentation or attention to security.

The state relied on security guarantees from the manufacturers, the plaintiffs said.

Testifying for the plaintiffs, Doug Jones, a computer expert at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, said it would be easy to reprogram one of Colorado's electronic voting machines.

"You could turn it into a Nintendo machine," Jones said. "

Nintendo machine... :rofl: