1) http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars
2) http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Voting_machine
These electronic machines leave no paper trail by which vote verification or audit can take place.
There is no way for the voter to know his vote was correctly registered and no way to verify the count when it's done.
The following incidents were related in the Washington Post: "In Georgia, voters found that when they pressed the screen to vote for one candidate, the machine registered a vote for the opponent.
Avi Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins and co-author of the report said, in India, the ruling party has proceeded with automating the electoral process uniformly nation-wide - in a democracy of over one billion people, and few resources to challenge results.
According to the Post, "Rubin said, insiders could program the machine to alter election results without detection. All machines had the same...
2007-09-16
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