{"id":6290,"date":"2008-08-19T19:49:41","date_gmt":"2008-08-20T02:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6290"},"modified":"2008-08-20T17:37:12","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T00:37:12","slug":"scientific-american-planning-to-e-vote-read-this-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6290","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Scientific American&#8217; Blasts E-Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Those conspiracy theorists over at <i>Scientific American<\/i> just refuse to move on and get over it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the latest headline from those whackos: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=electronic-election-day\">&#8220;Planning to E-Vote? Read This First&#8221;<\/a>, subtitled &#8220;With less than three months before the presidential election, the hotly contested state, Ohio, along with others, continue to have problems with E-voting technology.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The tin-foil hatters over there (so-called <i>scientists<\/i>) have the temerity to report stuff like this:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;None of the systems out there are even remotely adequate given the importance of the data they handle,&#8221; says Patrick McDaniel, a Penn State professor of information security who led the EVEREST testing [on behalf of the state of Ohio]. A lot of the attacks that McDaniel and his team tested could be carried out at a polling place or county elections office in a matter of seconds. An example: when researchers placed a piece of white tape over part of an e-voting system&#8217;s scanner, they were able to effectively block it from reading the entire ballot. &#8230; The team also found that the keys to unlock Hart&#8217;s ballot box could also be used to open the ballot boxes on the Premier [Diebold] systems.<\/div>\n<p>What next? <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6285\">Aliens sending anthrax letters<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p><em>Addendum: To those who didn&#8217;t get it, yes, my comments above about &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221; were, in fact, satirical. The <\/em>SA<em> article is right on target, a must-read, and concurs with virtually everything we&#8217;ve been trying to get across here on <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\">The BRAD BLOG<\/a> for about 4 years straight. Even as we, ironically, were tarred by the democracy-haters as &#8220;conspiracy theorists&#8221;. Hope that clarifies.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those conspiracy theorists over at Scientific American just refuse to move on and get over it. Here&#8217;s the latest headline from those whackos: &#8220;Planning to E-Vote? Read This First&#8221;, subtitled &#8220;With less than three months before the presidential election, the hotly contested state, Ohio, along with others, continue to have problems with E-voting technology.&#8221; The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,106,6,28,104],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-election-reform","category-hava"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6290"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}