[EM] Why We Shouldn't Count Votes with Machines

[Dave Ketchum]

ANYTHING cam get tampered with if enough doors are left ajar, including 
paper ballots (such as discarding, editing, or replacing some).

Perhaps some classification would help the thinking:
      What is simple for most anyone to do?
      What requires skill in prying the doors open?

DWK

On Thu, 2 Oct 2008 22:58:37 -0600 Kathy Dopp wrote:
> James,
> 
> Nice sales piece for electronic ballot rigging machines that fails to
> mention that it is impossible to ensure that e-votes are not tampered
> with.
> 
> Here is a great film done by graduate students at the University of
> California, Santa Barbara in their Computer Security Group who show
> how easy it is to rig elections with any e-ballot voting machines - in
> four different ways that would subvert any post-election audits -
> because even the voter verifiable paper ballot records are easily
> rigged to match fraudulent vote totals:
> 
> http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~seclab/projects/voting/
> 
> The graduate students' film is easy for any lay person to understand.
> It requires no computer expertise to follow.
> 
> It is amazing the utter cr-- that voting machine vendors and election
> officials continue to put out to the press that is contrary to all
> fact and common sense.
> 
> Cheers,
> Kathy
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