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Audit the Voting Machines Now! Diebold machines, which I voted on, leave NO paper trail. This bothered me while waiting in line to vote. What stops Diebold from manipulating the vote count? What stops a hacker from being found out? Nothing! There is no way to verify the electronic count with anything else - the only thing that can be verified is how many people voted on each machine. I want an ATM style receipt to be generated, or perhaps a scantron style ballot to be generated as well.
Black Box is using the Freedom of Information Act to request the internal logs of the these voting machines. They did this for the King County (Seattle) primaries, and found some disturbing things: the audit log (which is supposed to not be able to be modified) has a three hour deletion during peak voting hours. Plus, when they received the public records, the dial-up modem number that the results go to was given to them as well.
When we obtained the trouble slips, in a public records request -- documentation that indeed the modems were not working fine, we were accidentally given the access phone number for King County.
Were we so inclined, if we had simply kept this under our hat, we could take control of your central server on election night from our living room.
I think that it is important to audit our votes and I'm planning on donating to help them with this important task.
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