How to STEAL an election
Us technoweenies have known all along that this possibility has existed, and now John “Hannibal” Stokes of Ars Technica shows you how. With the merging of computer technology and voting machines, any reasonably talented hacker can steal an election. And I’m one of the lucky ones who lives in a state where paper backup records aren’t required. Oh joy.
The article states:
Now, I won’t be giving you the kind of “push this, pull here” instructions for cracking specific machines that you can find scattered all over the Internet, in alarmingly lengthy PDF reports that detail vulnerability after vulnerability and exploit after exploit. (See the bibliography at the end of this article for that kind of information.) And I certainly won’t be linking to any of the leaked Diebold source code, which is available in various corners of the online world. What I’ll show you instead is a road map to the brave new world of electronic election manipulation, with just enough nuts-and-bolts detail to help you understand why things work the way they do.Along the way, I’ll also show you just how many different hands touch these electronic voting machines before and after a vote is cast, and I’ll lay out just how vulnerable a DRE-based elections system is to what e-voting researchers have dubbed “wholesale fraud,” i.e., the ability of an individual or a very small group to steal an entire election by making subtle changes in the right places.
The most awful part of this is that it can basically be done without leaving a trace simply by planting a timed, self destructing virus or worm, that does its dirty work then commits harikari. In the wake of Florida in the year 2000, the move should have been back to PAPER ballots with receipts. Forget Gerrymandering, or disenfranchising or other wholesale fraud used by both parties to keep voters away from the polls, this has the ability to completely turn an election on its head.
And if the Republicans end up with both the House and the Senate again . . .
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