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

[Twist_U_Up]

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

U.S. Presidential Election Can Be Hacked

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.

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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.

This year most California voters will use paper ballots, which give officials a way to audit their machine-counted tallies for irregularities, but not all states have that option. About a quarter of the votes cast in the upcoming election will be on electronic voting equipment with no paper trail, Wagner said. And even the states that keep paper records are not necessarily checking their results. Only about a third of all states have records that are regularly audited.

[lonestarnot]

1. The cheat is already in.

[New Dawn]

16. I agree, I think that this election will be rigged.

Just like the last two presidential elections were.

[yourout]

2. I am not worried about outside viruses.....I am more worried about built in "features"..

If the machines are being manipulated it's because someone far up the food chain made sure there is an open door to walk through.

[tom_paine]

12. Exactly. This barrel of snakes only open from the inside.

[yourout]

13. More back doors than a meth lab.

[L. Coyote]

3. Democracy is hard work. You snooze, you lose!

[Kaleko]

4. {{{sigh}}} K&R

[Kurovski]

5. K&R. (nt)

[bbernardini]

6. In other news, fire is hot. Coming up on the Health Check, water is wet. nt

[spanone]

7. lou dobbs (who i can't stand) said bu$hco was fighting the paper trail vote...of course they are

[windoe]

8. Tell me why I should be getting my hopes up again?

For a third stolen election?

[Twist_U_Up]

15. Don`t you find everyone freaking out about whos going to represent the Dems..........

but barely a word from any of them acknowleding that the elections are rigged?
How do people look past this and continue to play thier game ?
Seems useless to me. I cant support a damn one of them until the machines are 100% reliable.


Vote No confidence.

[Kurovski]

17. Because as adults, we have to continue on despite disappointment and dishonesty.

We get informed, then speak up, write LTTE, call reps, talk to people. And we vote.

[YvonneCa]

9. 'Can be'...

...hacked ?:mad: Bitter again. :7

[kster]

10. K&R.nt

[iamthebandfanman]

11. it has been hacked

and will over and over again...

no 'could' to it.


go look up the youtube video of a computer programmer testifying how easily it could be done and confessing he was hired by a republican rep in florida to make a program that intentially switched votes.

why nothing ever came from it, ill never know.

[Twist_U_Up]

14. His name is Clint Curtis. NASA Programmer. Used and discarded

John Conyers knows and has covered it up.

[Kurovski]

18. Kick. (nt)