jennifer5
23.07.06, 08:31
"Anyone with access to the election software of a major voting machine vendor
can change the outcome of a national election and determine which party will
control Congress. Election fraud can now be committed on a national, not just
a local, basis."
Barbara Simons, Past President
Association for Computing Machinery.
With the old lever machine method of voting, election fraud could only be
committed on a local, or possibly a regional basis without high risk of
getting caught. But now it would take only one well-placed programmer
creating malicious code to rig a national election. "How do you know what
software is running on Election Day?" asked Simons. "You could easily add a
last-minute software patch to do something on Election Day, [and that would]
then immediately erase itself."
www.chronogram.com/issue/2006/01/news/index.php