Why not spam voting? How moronic!

Horrible.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/01/electronic_voting_hacked_bender/

From the link:

Security experts have warned that electronic voting systems are decades away from being secure, and to prove it a team from the University of Michigan successfully got the foul-mouthed, drunken Futurama robot Bender elected to head of a school board. ...In 2010 the Washington DC election board announced it had set up an e-voting system for absentee ballots and was planning to use it in an election. However, to test the system, it invited the security community and members of the public to try and hack it three weeks before the election....

...Once in, the team searched the government servers for additional vulnerabilities and system options. They found that the cameras installed to watch the voting systems weren't protected, and used them to work out when staff left for the day and so wouldn't spot server activity. More worrying, they also found a PDF file containing the authentication codes for every Washington DC voter in the forthcoming election.

The team altered all the ballots on the system to vote for none of the nominated candidates. They then wrote in names of fictional IT systems as candidates, including Skynet and (Halderman's personal favorite) Bender for head of the DC school board. They also set up systems so that any further ballots would come under their control.

According to the log files the team found, plenty of people were also busy trying to get into the system. They spotted attempts to get in from the Persian University, as well as India and China. Using their inside access, they blocked these attacks.

yikes!

but I do like it as example/symbol of what's possible.

challenging eric cantor, and working very hard to get cantor OUT of the House,
and supported and voted for John Delaney in MD #6, hoping to oust roscoe bartlett.

Folks here do NOT think the Presidential race is the only one that matters, many here have spent time, effort and $$$ on challengers to Brown in Mass, Ryan in Wisc, and supporting Dems all around the country.

There were several hundred on line and all of these folks voted on the same paper ballot. S at least at the polling site, the county clerks offices, they're all voting on paper. These can be manually recounted such a need is warranted. It won't, NJ will be Obama's by double digits.

The GOP thinks it has this election in the bag for Rob-me. Not. Even if you are not a Catholic, pray to Saint Isadore. He is the patron saint of computers and computer programmers and their families, in so many words. Whatever we can do to ensure a fair election, we should do. Get praying. He can protect us from the Clint Curtis' of this world in such an important election. It has been proven prayer works, especially when huge numbers pray. Vote Obama into office. Then let's get rid of these GOP operated, fallible, inefficient, insecure, obsolete, electronic voting machines for good. Vote for sure... pray if you dare. It certainly can't hurt.

Dear Patron Saint Isadore, please protect our election from unethical computer geeks who think they can steal this election. This may be the most important election to affect the lives of the majority of Americans, our country, our world and our planet. Please protect us and guide our poll workers, poll watchers, lawyers, judges, Anonymous, and everyone who has a hand in counting our votes. In Jesus name we pray. Amen.