SANS Institute -- Voting machine security warnings

[apnu]

Link: http://www.sans.org/newsletters/newsbites/newsbites.php?vol=8&issue=66&rss=Y#sID200

Study Turns Up Problems with eVoting System in Ohio (21 August 2006)
A report based on a study of a May 2006 primary election in Cuyahoga County, Ohio indicates that the electronic voting system used in the election presents significant concerns about accuracy. Close to ten percent of the paper versions of the votes, or the voter-verifiable paper audit trail, generated by Diebold Election System's AccuVote TSx touch-screen voting equipment were "either destroyed, blank, illegible, missing, taped together or otherwise compromised." According to the report, 72 percent of polling places showed a discrepancy between the voting record on the machine's memory card and the paper ballots the system generated. The report also indicated that printer problems including jamming and improperly loaded paper rolls could present serious accuracy concerns. The report strongly recommended that election workers be trained in the use of the machines, that the printers be tested and that contingency plans be developed. A Diebold spokesperson has questioned the methods used in the study; he maintained the discrepancies were the result of matching memory cards with the wrong sets of paper ballots.
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Another article concerngin the Maryland Governor's lack of concern about problems in that state is also in that SANS Institute link.

[EST]

1. Sure, Mr. Diebold,

You're only supposed to match up the memory cartridges against the sets of ballots with the same totals - sure - everybody knows that. The results are always supposed to agree and confirm a repubilklown win.