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Utah rolls out touch-screen machines

By THOMAS BURR
Salt Lake Tribune
26-JUN-06

Not everyone is looking forward to using the new technology for voting, especially a crowd of computer technicians who say the machines are not secure. Some critics fear the devices can be easily hacked into and results changed.

"In my mind, I still know the vulnerability of these machines," says Bruce Funk, the former Emery County clerk who was relieved of his position after allowing a group critical of the machines to see if they could hack into the device. They did.

Computer scientists from Washington-state-based Black Box Voting found what they say is a serious security breach.

"There are multiple levels of back doors" allowing access to tweak the machine's coding, Funk says. "That gives me heartburn."

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