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Computer Scientists: 



'2008 Presidential Election Can Be 
Hacked'


?


Systems Made by Diebold, Sequoia and Hart InterCivic Are 
'Still Going to Have Same Viral Vulnerabilities Found' During California's 2007 
Study...


?


http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5890




A bunch of world-class computer scientists testified publicly this week that 
"U.S. Presidential 
Election Can Be Hacked".


As stunning as that sounds, there's nothing new here necessarily to readers 
of The BRAD 
BLOG, other than the fact that outlets like the IDG News Service and 
PCWorld are reporting it --- out loud --- and that the computer scientist 
community, specifically those who have been studying these systems, are now out 
and out saying it --- in public...and out loud.


"The three systems we looked at are three of the most widely used around the 
nation," warned professor David Wagner of the University of California, 
"They're 
going to be using them in the 2008 elections; they're still going to have the 
same vulnerabilities we found."


Wagner was speaking about e-voting system made by Diebold, Sequoia Voting 
Systems and Hart InterCivic which he examined during CA Sec. of State Debra 
Bowen's independent "Top to Bottom" review last year. He "and his team found 
that they could introduce a computer virus to any of the three systems, which 
would then spread throughout the county and ultimately skew the vote count," 
the 
IDG News Service reports.


While our readers may be familiar with the above, our friend "DHinMI" 
and his fellow misinformed DailyKos front pagers may want to give this 
short article a quick look sometime soon. Particularly the part about paper 
ballots, and that simply having them is not enough...if nobody bothers to 
actually count them.


Here's the key grafs from the article...Along with a special clip for the 
dangerously misinformed/misleading dKos boys and girls...





U.S. Presidential Election Can Be Hacked
Robert 
McMillan, IDG News Service 




This year, the U.S. will pick a new president using electronic voting 
machines that can be hacked, security experts said Thursday
...
As the 
November election approaches, the question before officials is not how to fix 
known bugs in their e-voting systems, but rather, how best to check them for 
fraud, said David Wagner, an associate professor with the University of 
California, Berkeley's computer science department.


Wagner was part of the team that audited California's voting systems during 
the state's review of electronic voting, and the problems his team found affect 
counties across the U.S. "The three systems we looked at are three of the most 
widely used around the nation," he said during an e-voting panel discussion at 
the show. "They're going to be using them in the 2008 elections; they're still 
going to have the same vulnerabilities we found."
...
The California audit 
examined systems from Diebold Elections Systems, Hart InterCivic and Sequoia 
Voting Systems, ultimately permitting their use in 2008, but only under certain 
conditions. In testing, Wagner and his team found that they could introduce a 
computer virus to any of the three systems, which would then spread throughout 
the county and ultimately skew the vote count.



And in case yutzes like disinfo specialist and DailyKos front pager, Dana 
"DHinMI" 
Houle, don't bother to read the full piece linked above, here's a 
special clipping just for him/them...


Wagner said...even the states that keep paper records are not 
necessarily checking their results. Only about a third of all states have 
records that are regularly audited.


(Never mind that none of those states actually does much of a 
legitimate public "audit", of those paper ballots and/or records, but you 
get the drift.)


So, how does that square with your embarrassingly inaccurate dKos front page 
article 
written after the New Hampshire primary, Mr. Houle?


We're guessing you've yet to apologize to your readers for dangerously and 
wholly misleading them about key issues of Election Integrity, right? Of 
course, 
right. 







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