Paperless voting opens door for election stealing

[kster]

BY FRED GRIMM
[e-mail]

Ion Sancho worries about an inside job.
Sancho, Leon County's supervisor of elections, allowed a couple of computer scientists to try hacking into his voting system last year. With the same access as one of Sancho's election workers, the scientists were able to switch around votes willy-nilly.

I'm positive that an eighth-grader could do this,'' computer science professor Herbert Thompson told The Miami Herald after he redirected 5,000 votes from one hypothetical candidate to another.

In another test last month, Sancho's employees staged a mock election. They voted 6-2 ''NO'' -- that Finnish computer expert Harri Hursti couldn't hack their system. The vote count registered 7-1 ``YES
`
NO EVIDENCE'

The most amazing thing,'' Sancho said, was that the scientists erased all signs that that they had tampered with the computer code. ``There was no evidence that anything was wrong unless you counted the paper ballots.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13622609.htm

[kster]

1. You guys are to quick, already posted

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x409345