Comment RE: Not that big of a deal!!? (Score 1) 350
Not that big of a deal!? I hope it was just a sarcastic remark. I think below may be a list of reasons you should be concerned:
It only takes a very small number of people to control the outcome. Note there are many people handling the voting machine hardware here, and it isn't that difficult for them to find a friend who has a bit of computing experience. Maybe you'll scream unlikely, but think about a simple estimate. If each county has 100 election officials with access to the memory card, average numbef of county per state is about 30, we already have 3000 people with access to memory card per state on average. All it takes is one person to alter pretty much all of the results of the vote. All the analysis used was a card reader bought off e-bay. He didn't have full access to the Diebolt machines.
Worse, remember an article from about a week ago? http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/26/158 241&from=rss
The key issue here is secrecy, concentration of power, and accountability.
It only takes a very small number of people to control the outcome. Note there are many people handling the voting machine hardware here, and it isn't that difficult for them to find a friend who has a bit of computing experience. Maybe you'll scream unlikely, but think about a simple estimate. If each county has 100 election officials with access to the memory card, average numbef of county per state is about 30, we already have 3000 people with access to memory card per state on average. All it takes is one person to alter pretty much all of the results of the vote. All the analysis used was a card reader bought off e-bay. He didn't have full access to the Diebolt machines.
Worse, remember an article from about a week ago? http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/26/15
The key issue here is secrecy, concentration of power, and accountability.
