NYT: Test of Electronic Balloting System Finds Serious Flaws

[G_j]

www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0130-03.htm

Published on Friday, January 30, 2004 by the New York Times

Test of Electronic Balloting System Finds Major Security Flaws

by John Schwartz

 Electronic voting machines from Diebold Inc. have computer security and physical security problems that might allow corrupt insiders or determined outsiders to disrupt or even steal an election, according to a report presented yesterday to Maryland state legislators.

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The report supports the findings of a study released in July, by academic security experts at Johns Hopkins and Rice universities, that found Diebold software lacked the level of security needed to safeguard elections. Diebold stated that the code used by the researchers, which had been taken from a company Internet site and circulated online, was outdated. A subsequent report by Science Applications International found some similar problems.

Aviel D. Rubin, who led the Johns Hopkins effort, said, "If our report was unable to convince Maryland that the Diebold machines were vulnerable, then surely this work will set them straight."

The latest study found that some problems identified in the Hopkins study had not been corrected, and discussed other issues it found equally troubling.
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[SaddenedDem]

1. And Diebold replies.....

"See how secure our machines are?"

Bwahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!! Can you say clueless?

"The findings in the SAIC and RABA reports both confirm the accuracy and security of Maryland's voting procedures and our voting systems as they exist today," said Bob Urosevich, president of Diebold Election Systems, Inc."

The article can be found here:
PRNewswire

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. We need to sic Dennis on 'em again

*grrr*

[SaddenedDem]

3. We sure do!

Don't we DUers have an inside track there? :evilgrin:

[chimpy the poopthrower]

4. Why isn't every state doing this? (nt)

:shrug: