[FRIAM] voting machine tampering

[James Steiner]

I found this overview to be very informative, rather alarming, and
only as technical as minimally needed.

On arstechnica website:

http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars

Also available as a free, PDF: (PDF Link)

http://arstechnica.com/etc/How_to_steal_an_election-ArsTechnica.pdf

Also, IIRCC, there have been plenty of anomolous results with assorted
electronic voting machines, but no-one has been able to prove if they
were the result of hack attempts, or just the result of buggy software
/ poor handling.

~~James
http://www.turtlezero.com
(JA-86)

On 11/6/06, Nicholas Thompson <nickthompson at earthlink.net> wrote:
> Anybody?
>
> A lot of talk this morning about voting machine security.  Somebody made the
> point that nobody has ever hacked into a voting system in a manner that
> others might detect.  (No, this is NOT a tautology)  I wasnt sure I
> understood, but it seemed that there was something analogus to a checksum
> routine that would detect if software had been altered.  Did I come close to
> understanding.
>
> Nick
>
>
> Nicholas S. Thompson
> Professor of Psychology and Ethololgy, Clark University
> (nthompson at clarku.edu)
> Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM (nick at redfish.com)