U.S. Presidential Election Can Be Hacked

[kpete]

PC World Business Center News
U.S. Presidential Election Can Be Hacked
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."

With images of Florida's laborious 2000 presidential recount in their minds, county officials have spent billions over the past eight years on electronic voting systems. These systems are supposed to take the guesswork out of vote-counting. The problem is that they are insecure, and now states are being forced to make do with buggy equipment, panel members agreed. "We have spent billions of dollars on equipment," Wagner said. "We don't have another several billion dollars."

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[SteinbachMB]

1. I don't understand how America

can't seem run a smooth election. We never have this problem in Canada.

[Kurovski]

2. The system is designed for theft of elections.

It has just barest-bones "plausible deniability" built into it. In this regard, it runs quite smoothly indeed.

We have no "Democracy", in the truest sense of the word.

[formercia]

3. HAVA was responsible

The Hijack Americans' Vote Act.

Stealing the vote with taxpayer dollars. It was all a very well planned operation.

[mod mom]

4. by the same thieves that use wars for profitability.

:mad:

[diva77]

5. Equally disturbing to the installment of vote-stealing machines is the

pervasive installment of stepford-like elections officials that go along with the grand scheme of HAVA and deliver the operative talking points and cozy up to the vendors and deny any transparency in the voting process;

similar pattern to what we see in the DOJ -- operatives holding government positions and using them for political purposes

[kster]

6. I'm afraid things may have to get ugly

before America is able to get a TRUE vote count, we need to let them
(the crooks) think that by REMAINING SILENT about their scam, will allow their scam to move forward, they haven't realized that the SCAM IS OVER but SOON THEY WILL!!!

To many of us that know and understand the secret vote count scam and to few of them (THE CROOKS TRYING TO KEEP IT COVERED UP)!!!

ITS OVER!!!

Only a matter of time, Only a matter of time.....

KEEP PUSHING...

K&R.....