The sleuths who showed how to steal your e-vote

[MonteSano]

On a warm Friday afternoon last May, Alex Halderman double-parked his Cadillac STS near a New York hotel, left the motor idling and ducked into an alley for a secret rendezvous.

Moments later, the Princeton University grad student emerged with a black attaché case containing what he feared was a grave threat to the United States: A Diebold AccuVote-TS electronic voting machine.

Working in secrecy bordering on paranoia, Halderman and fellow grad student Ari Feldman and Professor Ed Felten spent the summer meticulously analyzing their prize -- and hatching a computer program they refer to simply as The Virus.

Now they have shown -- on the Internet, in Congress, and for anyone else who will watch -- how easily a popular electronic voting machine, long off-limits to public examination, can be rigged to steal elections without leaving any electronic fingerprints.

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"Any electronic voting machine without a voter-verifiable paper trail has the potential for enormous abuse," says computer security consultant Bruce Schneier. He served on a New York University task force that in June reported "significant security and reliability vulnerabilities" in electronic voting systems.



http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-9/1161491830246500.xml&coll=1

[babylonsister]

1. And these machines are still legit in many states - why? nt

[eppur_se_muova]

2. K & off to the Greatest. nt

[hwmnbn]

3. Given the large poll numbers .....

nationwide showing a double digit dem lead, it would be very hard to ignore if the repugs keep the house and senate.

If that doesn't wake up the electorate, nothing will.