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Computer voting is open to easy fraud, experts say

Diebold is a blue chip voting software company responsible for programming about 33,000 ballot casting machines acrossthe US. In the first large test of its software "by recognized computer security experts," reports the New York Times , "serious flaws that would allow voters to cast extra votes and permit poll workers to alter ballots without being detected" were discovered.
We found some stunning, stunning flaws,' said Aviel D. Rubin, technical director of the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University, who led a team that examined the software from Diebold Election Systems, which has about 33,000 voting machines operating in the United States.

[Diebold has a strong presence in Australia, so expect to be using the voting machines here soon because as one comentator pointed out: Stuffing ballot boxes is old fashioned, to steal big - you gotta use computers!]

Department of Defence behind dodgy internet voting system

A new $22 million system to allow soldiers and other Americans overseas to vote via the Internet is inherently insecure and should be abandoned, according to members of a panel of computer security experts asked by the government to review the program. The system, Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment, or SERVE, was developed with financing from the Department of Defense and will first be used in this year's primaries and general election.
A spokesman for the Department of Defense said the critique overstated the importance of the security risks in online voting. "The Department of Defense stands by the SERVE program," the spokesman, Glenn Flood, said. "We feel it's right on, at this point, and we're going to use it."

[“I have no question that somebody who's smart enough with a computer could probably rig it to mis-tabulate. Whether that has happened yet I don't know. It's going to be virtually undetectable if it's done correctly..." -- Randal H. Erben, Special Counsel on ballot integrity for President Reagan. More ...]