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Voting Machine Fraud Expected in Next Elections
(John Schwartz, New York Times, July 24, 2003)
The software that runs many high-tech voting machines contains serious flaws that would allow one person to cast multiple votes and permit poll workers to alter ballots without being detected, computer security researchers said Wednesday. . . . "We found some stunning, stunning flaws," . . . The systems, in which voters are given chip-embedded smart cards to operate the machines, could be tricked by anyone with $100 worth of computer equipment . . . With what we found, practically anyone in the country -- from a teenager on up -- could produce these smart cards that could allow someone to vote as many times as they like . . . The move to electronic voting, which intensified after the troubled Florida presidential balloting in 2000, has been a source of controversy among security researchers. They argue that the companies should open their software to public review to be sure it operates properly. . . . Among other things, the researchers said, ballots could be altered by anyone with access to a machine, so that a voter might think he was casting a ballot for one candidate while the vote was recorded for the opponent. . . . "This isn't the code for a vending machine," he said. "This is the code that protects our democracy."

posted by Lorenzo 1:50 PM