Voting devices under scrutiny

Voting devices under scrutiny

TALLAHASSEE - Gov. Jeb Bush said the state should review the way it tests electronic voting machines after a local elections official said the devices could be hacked to change race outcomes.

Bush's remarks Friday come after the acting secretary of state, David Mann, said he was confident in the process of certifying voting machines. Mann said he was "concerned" only that Leon County Elections Supervisor Ion Sancho might have given an outsider access to computer codes for a test of the Diebold optical-scan machines.

Sancho sent state elections officials a letter Friday requesting they do "further investigation" of Diebold Election Systems Accuvote 2000. Sancho said his internal tests showed the optical-scan machine's memory card produces false results when hacked by elections office insiders.

Sancho persuaded Leon County commissioners Tuesday to scrap the Diebold system in favor of one manufactured by Election Systems & Software, which also makes the ATM-style touchscreen voting machines used in Miami-Dade and Broward.

Bush also questioned whether Sancho gave away privileged information - which Sancho denies - but said the issue is "too important" to ignore.

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A Diebold spokesman questioned Sancho's tests, saying they didn't replicate real-world conditions. The tests involved optical-scan machines that use paper ballots voters mark with pencils. The ballots are fed into scanners that record the results onto the memory cards, which are then tabulated by a central computer.

More: http://www.gainesville.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051218/LOCAL/212180332/1078/news

"don't test the machines ..... test the tests."

Jeb knows that they are dirty and that is how his brother won. The repugs in Ohio
know that they are dirty too. That is why they are doing HB 3 which will make it against
the law to look at the voting machines, software, hardware, and central tabulators.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=172x10202

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