Iraqis, in the middle of a war, walked around with purple ink on their fingers and it was GREAT. We can run those elections with no problems. Here...not so much.

Something is wrong with this picture.

Business as usual and as expected!

Georgia has been having serious problems with machiens in the Metro Atlanta area ... as expected in the largely African-American communities.

College Park, Hapeville --- Don't have numbers yet, just saw a bit of reporting on local news earlier.

Karen Handel Republican GA SoS has been harping on phony voter fraud issues. 200 she says are registered in 2 states. Well excuuuuse me Miss Scandel ... isn't that an issue for YOUR department, not the voter?

Jebus ... I'm so sick of her.

Can intentional programming be considered a malfunction?

ES&S Machines can be hacked through the infrared port!

http://blog.wired.com/27.../12/report-magnet-a.html

. . . serious security vulnerabilities involving the magnetically switched bidirectional infrared (IrDA) port on the front of the machines and the memory devices that are used to communicate with the machine through the port. With nothing more than a magnet and an infrared-enabled Palm Pilot or cell phone they could easily read and alter a memory device that is used to perform important functions on the ES&S iVotronic touch-screen machine --- such as loading the ballot definition file and programming the machine to allow a voter to cast a ballot. They could also use a Palm Pilot to emulate the memory device and hack a voting machine through the infrared port. . .

No need to pull chips here!

. . .They found that a voter or poll worker with a Palm Pilot and no more than a minute's access to a voting machine could surreptitiously re-calibrate the touch-screen so that it would prevent voters from voting for specific candidates or cause the machine to secretly record a voter's vote for a different candidate than the one the voter chose. Access to the screen calibration function requires no password, and the attacker's actions, the researchers say, would be indistinguishable from the normal behavior of a voter in front of a machine or of a pollworker starting up a machine in the morning."

Re: Paul McCarthy's link...

Simply amazing this crap is still being passed off as secure and everyone is buying it!

What a load of BS!

the actual report seems to have been taken off the State of Ohio's website, but it is referenced in other articles.

It's an old report (Dec. 2007).

Voteaware saved the original report --- here's the link.
http://www.voteaware.com...icFinalEVERESTReport.pdf

study done by people from Penn State and University of Pennsylvania. excerpts available at

http://www.voteaware.com/

Current Wired article:

Report: ES&S Voting Machines Can Be Maliciously Calibrated to Favor Specific Candidates

and

Vote Flipping and Touchscreens – Matt Blaze

No EVM is even remotely secure. These machines are designed to be as cheap as possible (about $200-400 worth of components) so that the company makes a huge profit when they sell them to states for $8000. This is more corporate welfare not unlike what Halliburton and Blackwell have been getting.

I doubt that any of the EVM manufacturers has anyone on staff that knows anything at all about security, let alone computer security. All indications are that EVMs are as insecure as is possible to make them. IMNSHO this is intentional.

EVMs: Unfit for purpose. Garbage. Crap.

See xkcd for a humorous take on EVM tabulation security:
http://www.xkcd.com/463/

I hope and pray Obama/DNC know whats up and have a plan. I can't imagine there not aware and sitting on their hands without a strong response. I am offically nervous.