it would take only one person--one highly motivated, but only
moderately skilled bad apple, with either authorized or unauthorized access to the right company's internal computer network--to steal a statewide election?
I'll lay out just how vulnerable a DRE-based elections system is to what e-voting researchers have dubbed "wholesale fraud," i.e., the ability of an individual or a very small group to
steal an entire election by making subtle changes in the right places.
(c) How to steal an election by hacking the vote
by Jon Stokes
Version 1.01 - October 27, 2006
Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit writes...
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MORE ON PROBLEMS WITH ELECTRONIC VOTING, at Ars Technica.
posted at 10:37 AM by Glenn Reynolds
The following links provide research information from Princeton University, and Jon Stokes on the vulnerabilities of Diebold Acuvote TS voting machine to wholescale voter fraud by simply a motivate individual....
links to research are provided below.
write to your congressman, senator and state secretary of state and send them a copy of this document,
Not since 2000, with the Florida chad fiasco, and 2004 Ohio discrepancies, wholesale election theft is now possible.
Jon writes
You should also consider sending along a copy, be it email, snail mail, or fax, to your Secretary of State, your state Representative, and your state Senator. If more good people in government can be made to understand how vulnerable our democracy is, then we have some hope of turning the move to electronic election systems from a threat into a benefit for America.
You can find your congressperson at these links:
Contact your Representative
Contact your Senator
Here's a sample email from a Slashdot commenter who was among the first to suggest starting an email campaign based on the article.
I recently came across "How to Steal an Election" at http://arstechnica.com/... which lays out in rather devastating detail how flawed the current system of electronic voting is. I am concerned that our election process has effectively been privatized by a small number of companies, some of which are overtly partisan in their politics, and none held accountable for the numerous and easily-exploitable security flaws in their equipment. One of the equipment companies in particular has taken to smear campaigns and litigation against its critics in an attempt to silence them.
I understand that voting should and must be accessible to the disabled, but this can be done without compromising the security and integrity of our elections. Slot machines in Nevada are subjected to extremely rigorous design standards for security, while voting machines have no such standards at all. This situation cannot go on -- I urge you to secure our elections with appropriate legislation.
You may not agree with every sentiment expressed in the sample email above, but it's short, it's to-the-point, it's compelling, and it should give you a great model for writing your own.
Please remember, election fraud is a bipartisan issue. Both parties have stolen elections in
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