The CIA, which has been monitoring foreign countries' use of electronic voting systems, has reported apparent vote-rigging schemes in Venezuela, Macedonia and Ukraine and a raft of concerns about the machines' vulnerability to tampering. Full Story »
Posted by Mike LaBonte
An informative story, but nothing that everybody didn't already know. Anything can be hacked.An article I read recently said that the nations power grid is being hacked into regularly and has in fact paid ransom on at least two occasions to stop a major city from being totally shut down. Is this true? I believe so. But check it out for yourself. A good hacker is worth his wait in gold.
What is wrong with paper balloting? Is it because the press can't get their Info on the news quick enough. If the elections were held on Saturday, when millions more people could vote, to the detriment of republicans, every district in every town could verify the people in their district, have a paper vote, and let the hackers go to Russia.
Based almost entirely on the testimony of one CIA agent, this nevertheless adds evidence to the claims that electronics used for for voting are hackable. The only other viewpoint amounts to a one sentence comment that is very general, and oddly there is no EAC viewpoint at all. This is very valuable for the information.
Gordon exhibits extreme naivety or lack of awareness when he suggests electronic voting fraud has received no news-media attention. Alternative media attention has been extensive, and even some big corporate rich white media has covered it, despite their republican biases. This story does provide some information, but apparently only motivated by the opportunity to demonize Chavez.
Corporate proprietary software with bad control of quality and configuration has been widespread, especially with Diebold/Priemier. Voting and counting systems are hackable. Republicans are widely accused of hacking the vote and boosting vote counts for Bush and downticket Repubicans. Open software and paper ballots are a start.
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