Major media picking up the computer voting machine fraud story
Links from readers Katzena and Bob Goodsell
Computer voting is open to easy fraud, experts say (NY Times)
“The software that runs many high-tech voting machines contains serious flaws that would allow voters to cast extra votes and permit poll workers to alter ballots without being detected, computer security researchers said yesterday
We found some stunning, stunning flaws,” said Aviel D. Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, who led a team that examined the software from Diebold Election Systems, which has about 33,000 voting machines operating in the United States.”
Voting system’s security challenged (Washington Post)
“A touch-screen voting system that Maryland has just agreed to buy for $55 million and install in every precinct in the state is so flawed that a 15-year-old with a modicum of computer savvy could manipulate the system and change the outcome of an election, computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University said yesterday.”