Play chess on your nearest e-voting machine

[IChing]

We are not the only ones that have problems with these machines.



IT professionals in the Netherlands have demonstrated that the type of e-voting machines chosen by the Irish government for election counts can be secretly hacked.

Using documentation obtained from the Irish Department of the Environment, Dutch IT experts from anti e-voting group, "Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet" (We don't trust voting computers), went on the "Een Vandaag" television programme on Wednesday to reveal that NEDAP e-voting machines could be made to record inaccurate voting preferences and even be reprogrammed to run a chess program.

According to Colm MacCarthaigh, a representative from Irish Citizens for Trustworthy E-Voting (ICTE), the machines hacked by the IT professionals, were almost exact replicas of those selected by the Irish Government for use in elections here in Ireland.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/10/05/e-voting/


An anonymous reader writes, "In a just-published report (PDF, in English, cached here), the Dutch we-don't-trust-voting-computers foundation (Dutch and English) details how it converted a Nedap voting machine, of a type used in Holland and France, to steal a pre-determined percentage of votes and reassign them to another party. The paper describes in great detail how 'anyone, when given brief access to the devices at any time before the election, can gain complete and virtually undetectable control over the election results.'

As a funny bonus, responding to an earlier challenge by the manufacturer, the researchers reflashed a voting machine to play chess. The news was on national television (Dutch) last night and is growing into a major scandal. 90% of the votes in the Netherlands are cast on these machines and national elections will be held in a month."

this link has the pdf:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/05/1310235

[IChing]

1. Kick because I want the program this fall so

I have something to do in the voters booth.

[dougkeenan]

2. Tetris is fun also

Let's get the Dutch to hack that in as well!

[IChing]

3. I think that would be the greatest political effort

That when the next voter came into the booth

They had to play Tetris instead of voting

Easily recorded now by a cell phone in video.

[IChing]

4. Just telling you n/t