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Sorry, You're Vote Has Been: Lost, Hacked, Miscast, Recorded Twice
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of Popular Science
Posted: November 11th, 2006
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/technology/generaltechnology/ec...
In South Carolina, officials bought machines too late for adequate testing. And on many of their onscreen ballots, the presidential contest included names of candidates from local elections. Several Texas counties are thousands of votes short because a bug in the software failed to record Spanish-language ballots.For hundreds of thousands of votes, there will be no paper record at all.In Colorado, a group of hackers is boasting that they stole a box of electronic smartcards used to activate e-voting machines and reprogrammed them to allow multiple votes, just for fun. In virtually every state, officials failed to invite outside technical experts to participate in the process of e-voting machine selection. Because none of the major vendors of e-voting machines release their code for security testing, states and counties are forced to trust vendors' own assessments of their machines' reliability.
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