On 10/10/2015 10:44 AM, Paul Koning wrote:
That's not the real problem. The real problem is that you had no way to be
sure, no way to verify, that the machine was recording your vote and would
accurately report it later. It might just as easily report numbers that
someone had told it to report, not connected to any reality. How would you
know? If anyone were to question this, how would you prove that the count is
honest?
An election official in Ohio, I think, not an IT guy at all,
just somebody who knew how to open files, etc, played around
with a touch screen machine at his precinct. I THINK it was
the original Diebold machine, but I could be wrong on that.
I think he plugged in a USB cable or something, and found
the vote totals were just an open file on a memory card, and
could be opened and edited with standard Windows tools like
notepad! He went public with it, and it caused a pretty
large furor over this blatant lack of security. The
manufacturer of the machine had told the state that all
files were encrypted, you had to log on with a password,
etc. etc. and it was all lies.
You should be able to search for articles in the press about
this.
Jon
