We’ve done other stories on the vulnerabilities of electronic voting machines and specifically rigging this machine, but now we have a Princeton research project showing that it almost seems like it was designed with rigging in mind. On their web site they have a full technical paper on how this works. Now go out and vote!
This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. We obtained the machine from a private party. Analysis of the machine, in light of real election procedures, shows that it is vulnerable to extremely serious attacks. For example, an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates. An attacker could also create malicious code that spreads automatically and silently from machine to machine during normal election activities — a voting-machine virus. We have constructed working demonstrations of these attacks in our lab. Mitigating these threats will require changes to the voting machine’s hardware and software and the adoption of more rigorous election procedures.
A Diebold exec says the machine they tested had two year old software. It’s much better now. Then I wonder if would be willing to let the latest version be tested.
UPDATE: This just keeps getting better! Now it’s reported that a standard hotel minibar key will open the memory card slot door.
Top 8 reasons why this might be a problem for the Global Carpet Baggers.
1.) The Mexicans in California might, just might feel disenfranchised when voting for our next President.
2.) The ‘Dead in Chicago’ will turn over in their grave, voting for a Republican and not a Democrat really, those NAZI SOBs. Or will it continue as it has for the last 100 years?
3.) Our Paper trail with mail in ballots will become obsolete, think of the feeling of negelect in Oregon, where as many as 20 ballots have been delivered to a single family residence.
4.) King County Public Employees will lose a lot of over time, because they won’t have to recount the votes until a democrat wins. ( You need to live in Washington to understand).
5.) All the New Yorkers retired in Florida won’t really be able to see the screen and since that generation is usually afaid of any tech they won’t probably vote any way.
6.) Using the Diebold machines will stimulate the economy every two years, after all throwing such an expensive machine into a river is going to add up quickly. This would of couse be bad for the stock market, unless the machines are made in China then watch out!
7.) This will be a great excuse to get both the United Nation in trying to rig our elections. I can see it now a ‘Oil for Votes’ program, Kofi (A Muslim) probably has other children in need of a fortune. We need to think Globally while have others rape our country.
8.) Jimmy Carter can once enter into the lime light. His two last moments were with the Haitian DictatorJean-Bertrand Aristide, the Socialist in President Hugo Chavez in Venezuela. But then Jimmy said he and Idi Amin had the same view on human rights. It’s better than pretending to build houses for the poor.
Hi John,
Do you have any updates on the testimony of the Programmer Clinton Eugene Curtis [http://www.clintcurtis.com/] and any impacts this may be having?
Thanks.
Mr. Voting maching, say hello to Mr. Hammer.