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August 12th, 2003
Voting Machine Security

Technologically clueless bureaucrats.

[I’d love to hear exactly how an analysis of the source code used to run one of these machines qualifies as “nonsense”. To those of us who deal with this technology on a daily basis, the contents of the report were self-evident. We don’t need source code analysis to tell us that programmers are lazy, that they make mistakes, that they misunderstand the technology they are applying, that bugs happen, and that security is often the lowest priority. -Thomas]

Jolted Over Electronic Voting
Report’s Security Warning Shakes Some States’ Trust
By Brigid Schulte
The Washington Post

Monday 11 August 2003

The Virginia State Board of Elections had a seemingly simple task before it: Certify an upgrade to the state’s electronic voting machines. But with a recent report by Johns Hopkins University computer scientists warning that the system’s software could easily be hacked into and election results tampered with, the once perfunctory vote now seemed to carry the weight of democracy and the people’s trust along with it.

An outside consultant assured the three-member panel recently that the report was nonsense.

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