PC World: U.S. Presidential Election Can Be Hacked

[reprehensor]

http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/144431/us_presidential_election_can_be_hacked.html

U.S. Presidential Election Can Be Hacked
Robert McMillan, IDG News Service - Thursday, April 10, 2008

This year, the U.S. will pick a new president using electronic voting machines that can be hacked, security experts said Thursday at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.

As the November election approaches, the question before officials is not how to fix known bugs in their e-voting systems, but rather, how best to check them for fraud, said David Wagner, an associate professor with the University of California, Berkeley's computer science department.

Wagner was part of the team that audited California's voting systems during the state's review of electronic voting, and the problems his team found affect counties across the U.S. "The three systems we looked at are three of the most widely used around the nation," he said during an e-voting panel discussion at the show. "They're going to be using them in the 2008 elections; they're still going to have the same vulnerabilities we found."

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The California audit examined systems from Diebold Elections Systems, Hart InterCivic and Sequoia Voting Systems, ultimately permitting their use in 2008, but only under certain conditions. In testing, Wagner and his team found that they could introduce a computer virus to any of the three systems, which would then spread throughout the county and ultimately skew the vote count...

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They Pressed "KERRY" but got "BUSH"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1042056

[Autumn]

1. Can be my ass, it has been

thats why we have bush.

[Canuckistanian]

4. And always will be, until that source code is made public

And proper verification protocols are instituted.

As long as that code remains secret, only the voting machine companies will know for sure who really wins an election.

[DemocratInSoCal]

2. THIS JUST IN....EARTH CONFIRMED TO BE ROUND!!! nt

[reprehensor]

3. It may be common knowledge to some of us...

But the denial on this issue is undeniable.

[bvar22]

5. Why is the Democratic Party so fucking QUIET about this issue?

The Democratic Party should shut down the whole thing UNTIL we have secured the process.

Very few Democrats (Kucinich & Friends) have been willing to even talk about this issue.

WHY?

[SoCalDem]

6. Here's why.. The ones who have the power to change things

made it through the gauntlet and think things worked out ok.. The ones who did not, are out of power and unable to DO anything except complain.

In DC, when you complain about unfair elections, you are a "troublemaker".

[reprehensor]

7. Tune in and Chime in: VoteRescue Radio

I received this email today:

HELLO from VoteRescue Radio - Where Citizens Count, One Vote at a Time!

Tomorrow, April 13th, from 2-4pm CDT, we will be continuing with our "theme" of citizen lawsuits against voting machine companies with our first guest: Patricia Axelrod, election integrity activist from Reno, Nevada, who, based on the myriad of problems experienced in her state with the Sequoia voting machines, took on that company in a "pro se" lawsuit which is still ongoing. Patricia will share her story with us and the status of that suit, Axelrod v Sequoia et al. Patricia will also speak on the use of Diebold "DIMS" voter registration system as well as third party beneficiary rights to sue voting machine
manufactures. You won't want to miss this fascinating interview!

Patricia Axelrod is a weapons system analyst, a military scientist for peace and a past recipient of John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Award for her analysis of the failure of the modern high tech electronic battlefield. Her weapons work has also received a "Project Censored" award. She has taught investigative research at Johns Hopkins University and is the co-founder of the State of California Reserve Officers Association Committee on Persian Gulf War Illness. She now conducts the Desert Storm Think Tank and Veterans Advocate from her home in Reno, where she lives-and votes-and where she also runs the fledgling Elections Litigation Foundation (ELF).

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