Subject: Backdoor flaws found in Diebold e-voting machinesExcerpt: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9000449&source=NLT_PM&nlid=8 "These are built-in features, all three of them," said Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris. If a malicious person had access to a Diebold machine, the back doors could be exploited to falsify election results on the system, she said. A Diebold spokesman did not dispute Hursti's findings but said that Black Box Voting was making too much of the matter because the systems are intended to remain in the hands of trusted election officials. And we all know that "trusted election officials" would never let partisan bias or greed corrupt them! Although candidates raised $880 million during the last Presidential election in their desperate bids to be elected, I'm sure the funds would never be misused to buy the election. That would never happen here. Edited by Renee 2006-05-17 9:07 AM
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