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Would You Believe Letting Poll Workers Keep Voting Machines For Days Might Be A Security Problem?
from the not-so-secure,-huh? dept
While it's abundantly clear by now that electronic voting machines can be hacked, every time a new such report comes out, the e-voting machine companies respond that any such hack is improbable, since it would usually require some time alone with the machine, which would be nearly impossible under typical election settings. Of course, that doesn't take into account what happens before the election. In San Diego there's a lawsuit to invalidate an election in June because of questions over the e-voting machines. However, the really interesting part is that the lawsuit specifically calls out the practice of allowing "sleepovers." It turns out the county registrar of voters actually released the e-voting machines to poll supervisors days to a week ahead of time, and allowed them to store them however they saw fit between that time and the election. This is fairly common throughout the country, but isn't often discussed. While it's still a big leap to go from that fact to proving that the election was tampered with -- it does continue to raise questions about why we're trusting these machines when the opportunities for abuse are so great?
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What kind of idiot
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Reallllllly?!?
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It's not the technology
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I think that the above quote should be put on every bearuorcrat's desk, and make sure they see it!
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When average Republicans stand up and insist that all votes be counted regardless of which party the winning candidate is from then we will have fair elections and not before.
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you really don't get it
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america is spoiled
we are too spoiled by living in what is still the greatest country in the world to do anything as its taken over and slides backward
our freedoms/rights/liberties are stepped on, our 'democracy' is corrupted but we are all to busy paying our bills, raising our kids, watching out TVs, listening to our music, playing our video games and infact ENJOYING our, by comparison, blessed and wealthy lives to stand up and fight for whats being taken away
its a shame america is actually moving away from a freer and better society but it could definately be alot worse
its also a shame that so many important innovations are ignored because they are inconvenient to big business
big business rules the country
america is basically capitolism run amuck
and with greed and stupidity running the nation things WILL get ALOT worse
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Re: america is spoiled
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go away
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language should almost never be this difficult
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