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1. Comment - Three E-Voting Systems Susceptible to Attack, California Team Finds

   (Aug 7, 2007 - 6:36 PM)

   I was so grateful for a summary of report, Thank you. I don't find the tampering with memory cards, physically, to be a typical probability. I think the "insiders" are at the Diebold manufacturers level; wherein, the firmware was accessed in the year 2000 or 2002, after the machines were certified (from my county clerk and written by a GuyWorld article). The technicians told the clerks they were changing the clocks on the firmware---yeah, right! All these clerks should be asked to resign, due to this negligence. No telling what was encoded for typical President and Vice President categories/Republican, Democrat categories using "integer overflow" systems of reverse counting, etc. I.E. Where Gore's votes began to recede late at night, despite the major networks touting his eventual win.
   Also, could the memory cards, or the interpreter on the OS counter, as the study infers, have hidden code demands. I think of the vast space on my PageMaker page, where it is hard to find the piece I was working on, due to the sheer size. Could code be hidden on the memory card without the clerk aware of it?
   Also, Black Box talks of the non-security of the telphone jacks (non-sealed) wherein, an infiltrator could send a Trojan Horse, electronically through, during the hour and one-half when the GEMS mother machine is receiving vote reports from the various precincts.
   Was this in the study?
   One major legislation which should also be proposed is the increase of the percentage of hand-count for all races and initiatives---from the 1% audit to at least 9% (according to ITAs). This may catch fraud attempts, whereas, 1% won't show anything.