New fears surface over touch-screen voting

New fears surface over touch-screen voting
May 12, 2006, 16:18 GMT

NEW YORK, NY, United States (UPI) -- New fears were reported Friday about a potential security risk in Diebold Election System touch-screen voting machines.

Officials in Pennsylvania and California have issued urgent directives in recent days about a possible problem and other states with similar equipment were assessing the seriousness of the problem, The New York Times said Friday.

Computer scientists said the problem might allow someone to tamper with a machine`s software in the newest chapter in an emerging political and legal fight around the country over voting machines, the newspaper reported.

Michael I. Shamos, an examiner of electronic voting systems for Pennsylvania, where primary voting is scheduled Tuesday, calls it 'the most severe security flaw ever discovered in a voting system.'
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http://news.monstersandcritics.com/northamerica/article_1163510.php/New_fears_surface_over_touch-screen_voting

New for who? We've been screaming about it for 5 years!!!!!

damnit these people are slow.

Given that Diebold is pretty much the GOP's one sole hope of escaping being run out of town on a rail this November, I daresay there will be quite a lot of irregularities in the touch screen voting machines.

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Is there any follow through, do the State governments ask the election committees to investigate, demand that these problems to fixed? We are already having primaries with these machines.

:sarcasm: