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Rage Against the Voting Machine

Submitted by lpin on Wed, 06/11/2008 - 00:50 |

Anastasia Ealey is a contributor to the Sam Adams Alliance in Chicago. Her article on Diebold voting equipment first appeared on their website in March 2008.

CHICAGO, IL -- Voting can be a delicate, controversial matter. So the fact that Diebold electronic voting machines have attempted to bring relative ease to the process should be a welcome change, right? Not so fast. Unfortunately, these attempts have, in many cases, proven to be disastrous.

In a report given by the Center for Information Technology of Princeton University, the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine proved not only susceptible to extremely serious attacks, but also vulnerable to a “voting machine virus” that could easily be installed within less than a minute of having its memory card physically removed.

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