Call for 'hackers' to try to access voting machines ....

Call for 'hackers' to try to access voting machines calls stern warning (US Virgin Islands)


ST. CROIX - Law enforcement officials and the V.I. Board of Elections issued warnings Wednesday saying anyone who tampers with voting machines will face criminal prosecution.

The warning came after Elections officials received a faxed document last week stating that a $10,000 cash award would be offered to anyone who can successfully "hack" into electronic voting machines to prove whether vote tallies can be changed.

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Hope Gibson, a St. Croix resident and former senatorial candidate, said she sent the document to Elections offices and the media and insists she is not asking that anyone break the law.

She said similar challenges are being offered on the mainland and that the accuracy of the same machines used in the territory - the 1242 ELECTronic voting machine which is manufactured by the Danaher Corp. - have come into question.

http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/index.pl/article?id=7181775

......:evilgrin: I know someone who could use the money.