Dolemite wrote: ] The facts Harris and others lay out ought to give many ] election officials pause. Touch-screen voting machines aren't ] especially reliable; there are documented cases in which they ] have frozen, broken down and tabulated incorrectly during ] actual, binding elections. They're also not immune to hacks. ] Though voting companies will confidently tell you about their ] myriad security policies, the fact is that these machines run ] software, and software can be tampered with: An election ] result could be changed without anyone being the wiser. And ] perhaps worst of all, the machines and the companies that make ] them are shrouded in secrecy. What really happens in a ] touch-screen machine when you select your candidate? In most ] cases, everything probably goes as it should -- but there is ] no way to know for sure. ] ] Perhaps a little leaning towards conspiracy theory, but ] overall a good look at the problems with purely electronic ] voting machines - meaning those with no audit trail. whoever wrote this article has obviously never played video poker. RE: Hacking democracy |