BBV - Security fears grow over electronic voting systems

[Kelvin Mace]

Bev Harris, a freelance writer and public relations consultant in Washington state, made a startling discovery while conducting research for a book about elections. Without trying, she stumbled upon one of Diebold Election Systems' most proprietary company secrets - the entire computer code to its electronic voting machines.

Ms Harris is no cryptographer. She found the machine code for Diebold - one of the leading vendors of computerised voting equipment - using the popular Google internet search engine.

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David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
1237 Elon Place
High Point, NC 27263
http://www.plan9.org

[KeepItReal]

1. Wow, the Financial Times picked up the story!?

"Researchers looking at electronic voting have begun to call for a slowdown. No one knows what percentage of the 2004 presidential vote will be cast electronically. Experts say more than 10 per cent of votes cast in the 2000 presidential election were electronic."

Not the best article, but it is coverage.

Once again, BevHarris...keep up the great work!

on edit... *SOMEONE* knows what percentage of the 2004 vote will be cast electronically. I'll wager his first name is Karl and his last name is Rove.

[DEMActivist]

2. Forbes called this week as well

Can't wait to see how that right leaning reporter tries to twist this one into a pretzel. She probably had a nervous breakdown researching the article.

That should be fun.

[papau]

3. I like your grin as you said "fun" - I look forward to the Forbes article!

I hope she can get it past her editors!

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Even more interesting will be

when AP starts picking up the Scoop story.

David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
1237 Elon Place
High Point, NC 27263
http://www.plan9.org