Most vote machines lose test to hackers
San Francisco Chronicle
07/28/07
State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California’s voting machines and change results or take control of some of the systems’ electronic functions, according to a University of California study released Friday. The researchers ‘were able to bypass physical and software security in every machine they tested,’ said Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who authorized the ‘top to bottom review’ of every voting system certified by the state. Neither Bowen nor the investigators were willing to say exactly how vulnerable California elections are to computer hackers, especially because the team of computer experts from the UC system had top-of-the-line security information plus more time and better access to the voting machines than would-be vote thieves likely would have...
http://tinyurl.com/2orw6b
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Probe Reveals Hanky Panky With Electronic Voting Machines
by NWV News
"The only way we the people will know if we have fair and impartial elections is paper ballots, hand counted inside the precicnts before they are transported to the county clerk. Anything else will be a continuing illusion and a tragedy for this nation. Do Americans want fast-food style elections or honest ones? High-tech can be good, but we cannot allow it to steal the ballot box in favor of speed"......
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive118.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vote+machines
07/28/07
State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California’s voting machines and change results or take control of some of the systems’ electronic functions, according to a University of California study released Friday. The researchers ‘were able to bypass physical and software security in every machine they tested,’ said Secretary of State Debra Bowen, who authorized the ‘top to bottom review’ of every voting system certified by the state. Neither Bowen nor the investigators were willing to say exactly how vulnerable California elections are to computer hackers, especially because the team of computer experts from the UC system had top-of-the-line security information plus more time and better access to the voting machines than would-be vote thieves likely would have...
http://tinyurl.com/2orw6b
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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Probe Reveals Hanky Panky With Electronic Voting Machines
by NWV News
"The only way we the people will know if we have fair and impartial elections is paper ballots, hand counted inside the precicnts before they are transported to the county clerk. Anything else will be a continuing illusion and a tragedy for this nation. Do Americans want fast-food style elections or honest ones? High-tech can be good, but we cannot allow it to steal the ballot box in favor of speed"......
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive118.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=vote+machines
rudkla - 30. Jul, 10:58
