Electronic Voting | Kentucky's Corrupted Election System

Election workers asked my wife and I(Nicholasville KY) whether we wanted the electronic or classic machine on election morning. She took the electronic machine and I used one of the old ones.
The electronic machines have proven to be pathways to theft countless times. I can understand why Republicans would want them used. They seem to benefit very well from them. But why do Democrats go along?


Programming Voting Machines from Home? Kentucky's corrupted Election System.

How many other places have their voting machines programmed by a company which has no address and in which the programmer works out of his home?

And here's Blackboxvoting.org



From DKos.

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Surprise! Florida Voting Machines Can Still Be Hacked

Votes can be changed "without a trace". Deja Vu.

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truthout and the Miami Herald:

"Florida Secretary of State's office has conducted an elections study that confirmed Tuesday what a maverick voting chief discovered nearly two years ago: Insider computer hackers can change votes without a trace on Diebold optical-scan machines."
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Oh, and California recently had virtually the same results:

State-sanctioned teams of computer hackers were able to break through the security of virtually every model of California's voting machines and change results or take control of some of the systems' electronic functions, according to a University of California study released Friday.

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Paperless electronic voting machines "cannot be made secure

Security Of Electronic Voting Is Condemned
Paper Systems Should Be Included, Agency Says
--Cameron W. Barr

Paperless electronic voting machines used throughout the Washington region and much of the country "cannot be made secure," according to draft recommendations issued this week by a federal agency that advises the U.S. Election Assistance Commission.

The assessment by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, one of the government's premier research centers, is the most sweeping condemnation of such voting systems by a federal agency.

In a report hailed by critics of electronic voting, NIST said that voting systems should allow election officials to recount ballots independently from a voting machine's software. The recommendations endorse "optical-scan" systems in which voters mark paper ballots that are read by a computer and electronic systems that print a paper summary of each ballot, which voters review and elections officials save for recounts.

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