The "Mystery Disks" is just a cover for the Real Story in the WaPo article

[Senator]

Cleverly slipped in with little fanfare:

In an unrelated development, Maryland state auditors said in a report yesterday that the State Board of Elections is not properly controlling access to a new statewide database of registered voters or verifying what changes are made to it. The report comes at a time of heightened concern over the security and effectiveness of electronic voting systems.

Legislative auditor Bruce Myers said it was unusual to allow "across-the-board access" by local election officials to a sensitive database, but Lamone defended the board's practices. In a letter released with the Office of Legislative Audits report, she wrote that the board "is unaware of any allegations of the falsification of additions or deletions to the system."

Oh, really ?!?

So as long as there are no "allegations," election thieves are free to add as many ghost voters as they like and remove as many valid voters as they think they can get away with.

We need real-world auditing, including in-person, witnessed signature verifications.

These crooks will go to any lengths to stop the electorate from getting their country back.

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[pat_k]

1. Kick!

[liam_laddie]

2. K & R !

I expect this is going on in many states.

[formercia]

3. on the positive side

any changes should be archived and if there are any problems, a forensic audit of the data will probably identify any suspicious entries or deletions, although probably too late for the elections.

Start sending people to jail for misbehaving and you will see it become less of a problem.

[ClintonTyree]

4. It's time to have the United Nations step in........

and monitor our election process. The Republicans have turned our election system into the envy of every third world dictator. This shit HAS to stop! :grr:

[Tin Man]

5. HUGE k&r - ZERO configuration control at Maryland BoE

"Maryland state auditors said in a report yesterday that the State Board of Elections is not properly controlling access to a new statewide database of registered voters or verifying what changes are made to it.

If this allegation is true, we're talking ZERO integrity of the Maryland voter rolls. There MUST always be enforced processes that control who, when, where, why, and how data is permitted to be modified. When ALL users possess ReadWrite permissions for modifying any/all regions of the database, while there is no mechanism to track changes being made - it's a recipe for disaster. Strike that - not a recipe, but a guarantee of disaster.

This is TOTALLY FUCKED-UP and needs to be corrected! BOEs can't be hacking willy-nilly on the voter rolls - there needs to be CMMI certification of a legitimate process for maintaining and updating these databases.

Kick, kick, kick!

[Wilms]

6. K & R n/t

[enough]

7. k&r