Gov. Jeb Bush says he supports reviewing voting machines after tests

[OregonBlue]

Review of vote policy?
Gov. Jeb Bush said he supports reviewing voting machines after a test by an elections supervisor showed that hackers could electron- ically stuff some ballot boxes.

BY MARC CAPUTO
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TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush said Friday that the state ought to consider relooking at the way it examines electronic voting machines, following a county election chief's tests that showed insiders could hack into the computers, change votes and not leave an electronic fingerprint behind.
Bush, saying the subject is ''too important'' to ignore, echoed national computer-security and voting experts, and struck a dissimilar chord to acting Secretary of State David Mann, who expressed less urgency Thursday to retest vote machines. Mann said he was ''concerned'' only that Leon County Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho might have given an outsider access to his vote machines' computer codes Tuesday.

Bush also questioned whether Sancho gave away privileged information -- which Sancho denies -- and noted Sancho's ''unorthodox'' media-friendly style, in which he conducted his computer-hacker tests and spoke about them with The Herald before discussing them with the secretary of state's office, which oversees elections.

'My general thought is, probably, they're saying, `Well, here he goes again. We don't want to deal with him because he's a maverick.' And I would suggest that, no, this is too important, that we ought to get his information, look at it carefully,'' Bush said.

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/13429279.htm

[Liberal In Texas]

1. Wow. Pigs are flying. n/t

[flordehinojos]

2. what a damn weasel. he is not running for anything.neither is his brother,

ergo... look at the voting machines!

[OregonBlue]

3. Yesterday he said no, not a reason for concern. Must be getting some heat

down there in sunny Florida!!

[flordehinojos]

7. sunny florida ought to actually torch his ass

[cureautismnow]

4. Yes, Jeb-boy. Let's take a Retroactive look at the Machines.

Perhaps, we could take a look at say, the 2002 gubernatorial election?:spray:

[FogerRox]

6. Jeb is a --- ********* ****** ************* * ******

also dont forget-- DU has a Election reform forum
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=203

[flordehinojos]

8. right, starting with the race between janet reno and bill mcbride.

reno won down hands down but they managed to make it appear that mcbride did so that jeb could reenter the governor's mansion.

[Dr.Phool]

5. He wants to make sure they can still hack them.