[nukkad] Results of Princeton Study : Hack the vote? No problem

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http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/09/13/diebold/index_np.html

Diebold, the e-voting-machine maker, has long sworn its systems are
secure. Not so, says a new Princeton study. Converting votes from one
candidate to another is simple.

By Brad Friedman

Excerpt from article follows

Sept. 13, 2006 | Having reported extensively on the security concerns
that surround the use of electronic voting machines, I anxiously
awaited the results of a new study of a Diebold touch-screen voting
system, conducted by Princeton University. The Princeton computer
scientists obtained the Diebold system with cooperation from
VelvetRevolution, an umbrella organization of more than 100 election
integrity groups, which I co-founded a few months after the 2004
election. We acquired the Diebold system from an independent source
and handed it over to university scientists so that, for the first
time, they could analyze the hardware, software and firmware of the
controversial voting system. Such an independent study had never been
allowed by either Diebold or elections officials.

The results of that study, released this morning, are troubling, to
say the least. They confirm many of the concerns often expressed by
computer scientists and security experts, as well as election
integrity activists, that electronic voting -- and indeed our
elections -- may now be exceedingly vulnerable to the malicious whims
of a single individual.

Excerpt over


One more link  :
look it in the light of above article
http://mediamatters.org/items/200411220005

regards,
--rc


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