 thisnamecantbetaken says: Last month, Princeton researchers submitted a report based on their study of the machines' security, part of an ongoing lawsuit filed by Rutgers Constitutional Litigation Clinic against the state government aimed at decertifying Sequoia machines. The results of the study still aren’t known: A judge placed a gag order on the researchers that prevents them from publishing their work. "Any reasonably talented security researcher can compromise these machines" In fact, California's study of Sequoia's machines found that any poll worker with access to Sequoia's machines could quickly change the results of an election. In 2006, researchers at Princeton found that a Diebold machine could be hacked in less than a minute. There's a possibility their votes will be hacked, lost or miscounted. But that's no excuse not to vote, argues Smith. "You'll just have to take a chance," she says. "The only way to be sure your vote won't count is not to show up. If you can, don't vote on election day. Take advantage of advanced polls, where they aren't using those abominable machines that don't produce any verification of your vote, or do a mail-in vote. Don't let those evil machines steal the election away from the people of America. A paper trail, to say the least, is absolutely necessary -- and makes common sense to most people. My state uses machines with a paper trail...requires a voter photo ID...and sends out a letter before election day to confirm that you are living at the address you say you are. If this is not yet perfect at least it certainly feels ok, and like they (Arizona) are trying to make every vote count, no votes are stolen, no voter fraud, etc. We also do the advanced ballots. Since Obama encouraged doing the advanced voting I've done it for the first time. It turned out really useful on casting the votes on the many propositions and referendums we also have on our ballots. Now that I've voted I ... |
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