BBV: Voting system found to have fraud risk (MD)

[Bushfire]

By David Nitkin
Sun Staff
Originally published September 24, 2003, 10:08 PM EDT

An independent review of Maryland's proposed touch-screen voting system released Wednesday found a "high risk of compromise" by malicious outsiders who might want to tamper with election results.

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The review released Wednesday paints a less-than-flattering picture of how an election would have been run in Maryland had the Hopkins study not drawn attention to problems. Several risks were deemed serious.

While some changes were required of Diebold, many more are to be made by the State Board of Elections. The study found problems not only with the technology behind the electronic machines, but in policies and procedures used by state and local election boards.

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While the SAIC report was released Wednesday, the study was completed about three weeks ago, and state officials have been meeting with Diebold rep resentatives and others to discuss the results. Only about 60 pages of 200 were made public.

more...

http://www.sunspot.net/news/local/bal-machines0925,0,81577.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

I feel bad for Maryland residents who know their vote will cast in a cloud of haze. How they can sit on the sideline, and not be outraged will be a mystery. The article names names in the MD govt. Give them a piece of your mind. How MD knowingly will use flawed machines, or have a study done on machines that weren't even possibly certified yet is beyond me. They don't even say what the certification numbers are for the machines they tested! :wtf:

for a response by Bev Harris, click on the following link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=400983

[Bushfire]

1. Here are a bunch of other links covering the MD story today

http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/24/153258.shtml?tid=103

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=SVBIZINK3.story&STORY=/www/story/09-24-2003/0002023757&EDATE=WED+Sep+24+2003,+05:02+PM

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/politics/2508936/detail.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,98248,00.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60825-2003Sep24.html

[symbolman]

2. Don't forget

my Flash movie on this:



http://www.takebackthemedia.com/voterevolution.html

[Bushfire]

5. How could I not remember that?

That's your best work next to Army of One. Keep up the fight Symbolman. We are all proud of your work.

[Nottingham]

3. Oh the Truth is getting out! Whoo Hoo

:bounce:

[sybylla]

4. Nice to see this made such a deal of in MD

I hope it will start a firestorm that will spread across the country as HAVA forces each state to upgrade. Every state needs to take a hard look at what they have versus what they are buying and stop accepting the sales pitch as gospel.