Study: Fla. Voting Machines Still Flawed

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Washington Post/Associated Press

Study: Fla. Voting Machines Still Flawed

By BRENDAN FARRINGTON
The Associated Press
Tuesday, July 31, 2007; 2:21 PM

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida's optical scan voting machines are still flawed, despite efforts to fix them, and they could allow poll workers to tamper with the election results, according to a government-ordered study obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

At the request of the secretary of state, Florida State University's information technology laboratory went over a list of previously discovered flaws to see if the machines were still vulnerable to attack.
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The lab found, for example, that someone with only brief access to the machines could replace a memory card with one preprogramed to read one candidate's votes as counting for another, essentially switching the candidates and showing the loser winning.

"The attack can be carried out with a reasonably low probability of detection assuming that audits with paper ballots are infrequent," the report said.




Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/31/AR2007073101027.html

[Acadia Blue]

1. I used to like the state of Florida, since 2000, we boycott them as

a vacation place. And they are still at it, doing all they can to destroy the election process. Nevermore will I vacation there.

[xchrom]

2. fla. voting machines still flawed -- on purpose.

[Judi Lynn]

3. So right. After 7 years, they don't want to make any sudden moves, do they?

What are WE, the taxpayers going to do about it? Sue them?

No need to do the moral thing, when they can have everything just the way you want it until enough legislators are able to specifically pass the legislation to force them to change their ways. Republicans have it all "thought" out.

[benld74]

4. After years and hundreds of millions of dollars spent,

nothing still works, because of of no oversight, because the contractors are the ones who made all the money, because of no design specifications-federally mandated, because Repubs don't like big government, because private industry can do better then government, because slot machines in Vegas have a tougher go of making it to the casino floor than a voting machine which only elects people to office who can control other people and make oddles of money on the side doing it although its against all moral grounds to do so.

[Peace Patriot]

5. It's not the outsider hacker, it's the INSIDER hacker at Diebold/ES&S and their "trade secret"

programming that is the biggest threat. Why aren't they investigating the offices, and tech cubes and basements of these RIGHTWING BUSHITE CORPORATIONS?!

Jeez.