] Despite a summary in the report that states the Diebold
] system used in several state elections is "at high risk
] of compromise," the election officials and
] representatives of the company that wrote the report said
] they now have confidence in the Diebold system, and the
] state will proceed with its $55.6 million contract to
] purchase the machines.

You'd think that in a state with so many patriotic information security professionals there would be protests in the steets over this. Maryland is worse then Georgia.

Ballots are distributed via FTP, tallies are transmitted unencrypted over pots lines, and the tabulation machine is connected to the Internet. They have absolutely no security policies at all, and their practices are as bad as they come. These are BASIC BASIC security 101 things. If you can fix them in two months, great, guess what, we still have to deal with the intermediate and advanced issues.