Voting machine security alert sent - Florida!

[DoYouEverWonder]

March 4, 2006

TALLAHASSEE - The state recommended on Friday that elections officials across Florida enhance security safeguards for all voting systems after tests in California and Tallahassee exposed weaknesses.

Leon County Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho called the technical advisory a vindication of his findings last year that some Diebold optical scan voting machines can be hacked by election office insiders to change results.

"In other words, you could steal the election and no one would ever know," Sancho said.

The advisory to supervisors in all 67 Florida counties cites tests by California's Voting Systems Technology Assessment Advisory Board.

http://www.sptimes.com/2006/03/04/State/Voting_machine_securi.shtml


Could steal an election? Excuse me, more like did steal an election and they've done it more then once.

[lovuian]

1. So why have this voting system???

this makes no sense except they want to steal the election!!!

[mom cat]

2. That is the only reason I can think of.

[stop the bleeding]

3. I love the St. Pete Times - that is my hometown paper

any paper that is enemy of Bill O'lielly is a friend of mine.

[acmavm]

4. Why do they insist on using something that DOES NOT WORK? It is

defective. It is flawed and faulty.

This alone should tell everyone with a brain wave pattern what they're really up to. Sheesh.

[magellan]

5. Oh good. Now they'll just make it hard for anyone ELSE to hack in.

Maybe, out of all the clamor over these rigged machines, the only thing election officials have heard loud and clear is "If we can't get rid of the machines then maybe we'll have to hack them ourselves".

:shrug:

[PVK]

6. Now Jeb is trying to sack Ion Sancho.

http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/19494.html

[orleans]

7. i'm sick to death of these fucking machines!

ban them

outlaw them

hit them over their hard drives with a sledgehammer

when the hell are the people of this country gonna snap out of it???

voting machines are the stepping stones to the fall of america.

wake up!

(and of course, doyoueverwonder, nothing personal towards you in the least. just my bitch rant against the machines.)