I found this overview to be very informative, rather alarming, and only as technical as minimally needed.
On arstechnica website: http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/evoting.ars Also available as a free, PDF: (PDF Link) http://arstechnica.com/etc/How_to_steal_an_election-ArsTechnica.pdf Also, IIRCC, there have been plenty of anomolous results with assorted electronic voting machines, but no-one has been able to prove if they were the result of hack attempts, or just the result of buggy software / poor handling. ~~James http://www.turtlezero.com (JA-86) On 11/6/06, Nicholas Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anybody? > > A lot of talk this morning about voting machine security. Somebody made the > point that nobody has ever hacked into a voting system in a manner that > others might detect. (No, this is NOT a tautology) I wasnt sure I > understood, but it seemed that there was something analogus to a checksum > routine that would detect if software had been altered. Did I come close to > understanding. > > Nick > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > Professor of Psychology and Ethololgy, Clark University > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Research Associate, Redfish Group, Santa Fe, NM ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org