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Jolted Over Electronic Voting
Report's Security Warning Shakes Some States' Trust

By Brigid Schulte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, August 11, 2003; Page A01


The Virginia State Board of Elections had a seemingly simple task before it: Certify an upgrade to the state's electronic voting machines. But with a recent report by Johns Hopkins University computer scientists warning that the system's software could easily be hacked into and election results tampered with, the once perfunctory vote now seemed to carry the weight of democracy and the people's trust along with it.


An outside consultant assured the three-member panel recently that the report was nonsense.

"I hope you're right," Chairman Michael G. Brown said, taking a leap of faith and approving Diebold Election System's upgrades. "Because when they get ready to hang the three of us in effigy, you won't be here."

Since being released two weeks ago, the Hopkins report has sent shock waves across the country. Some states have backed away from purchasing any kind of electronic voting machine, despite a new federal law that has created a gold rush by allocating billions to buy the machines and requiring all states, as well as the District of Columbia, to replace antiquated voting equipment by 2006.

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[seemslikeadream]

1. I don't remember see it

Thanks

[Generic Other]

2. Do we know this person?

"An outside consultant assured the three-member panel recently that the report was nonsense."

[Eloriel]

3. My guess would be

the (in)famous Brit Williams.

Or possibly Larry Singer, I think his name is. The guy in IT here in GA who quit and moved out of the state 4 days after the last election.

Eloriel