15 States Use Easily Hackable Voting Machines

[Initech]

WASHINGTON ― In 2006, Princeton computer science professor Edward Felten received an anonymous message offering him a Diebold AccuVote TS, one of the most widely used touch-screen voting machines at the time.

Manufacturers like Diebold touted the touch-screens, known as direct-recording electronic (DRE) machines, as secure and more convenient than their paper-based predecessors. Computer experts were skeptical, since any computer can be vulnerable to viruses and malware, but it was hard to get ahold of a touch-screen voting machine to test it. The manufacturers were so secretive about how the technology worked that they often required election officials to sign non-disclosure agreements preventing them from bringing in outside experts who could assess the machines.

Felten was intrigued enough that he sent his 25-year-old computer science graduate student, Alex Halderman, on a mission to retrieve the AccuVote TS from a trenchcoat-clad man in an alleyway near New York’s Times Square. Felten’s team then spent the summer working in secrecy in an unmarked room in the basement of a building to reverse-engineer the machine. In September 2006, they published a research paper and an accompanying video detailing how they could spread malicious code to the AccuVote TS to change the record of the votes to produce whatever outcome the code writers desired. And the code could spread from one machine to another like a virus.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/electronic-voting-machines-hack-russia_us_5967e1c2e4b03389bb162c96

FIX THE DAMN VOTING MACHINES!!!!!

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Nah, if we fix em the gop and soviets cant steal election after election like they do now.

[GoCubsGo]

2. Not only are South Carolina's machines hackable, they're old and crappy.

I'm pretty sure the state hasn't performed one iota of maintenance on them since we got them twenty years ago, or whenever it was. The last time I voted was the first time I ever left some races blank. I live in one of the reddest of red districts here, and usually, at least 20% of the various state and local seats have a republican running unopposed. I always write someone in out of principle. When I tried writing in names back in November, i practically had to pound the touch keyboard to get anything to type in. I gave up after the second or third one, because it was taking forever, and there was a long line. I just left 'em blank, which I HATED doing, because it was essentially giving votes to the asshole republicans that had no opponents.

God, I hate this fucking state. I really need to get the hell out of here.

[mitch96]

3. Just goes along with gerrymandering and voter supression

Just part of their tool box of dirty tricks... Otherwise they could not win anything
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[Botany]

4. pencil and paper

n/t

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Really, what does a voting maching do? It just needs to tabulate fucking votes. AccuVote TS my ass!