By Antonio D. French
Filed Monday, May 22, 2006 at 9:16 AM
In next week's issue of Newsweek, Congressman Lacy Clay responds to serious security flaws found in the Diebold voting machines used by the St. Louis Board of Elections. Labels: Election_Board
According to Newsweek's Steven Levy, digital security experts say:
It requires only a few minutes of pre-election access to a Diebold machine to open the machine and insert a PC card that, if it contained malicious code, could reprogram the machine to give control to the violator. The machine could go dead on Election Day or throw votes to the wrong candidate. 
Worse, it's even possible for such ballot-tampering software to trick authorized technicians into thinking that everything is working fine, an illusion you couldn't pull off with pre-electronic systems.
"If Diebold had set out to build a system as insecure as they possibly could, this would be it," says Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University computer-science professor and elections-security expert.
Clay told Newsweek, "It gives me a bit of alarm that the voting systems are subject to tampering and errors."
Click here to read the Newsweek article.
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5/22/2006 10:52 AM
Read more about electronic voting:
http://www.eff.org/Activism/E-voting/
Check out the independent research at the bottom.
5/22/2006 10:58 AM
Where has the news media been on Lacy Clay's critical of the war in Iraq speech at UMSL and his getting booed? I don't watch the local news, typically, but usually see the , "Our top story at ten. . .," teasers during other shows. Did I miss something? I had to read about it at www.reason.com
5/22/2006 3:43 PM
I missed that too. I couldn't find the story on Reason's homepage. Do you have a link?
5/23/2006 8:04 AM
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