Serious Problems With Electronic Voter Machines

May 18, 2006 9:00 a.m. EST

Andrea Moore - All Headline News Staff Reporter

(AHN) - State and local officials are beginning to join voter-access groups and computer scientists in questioning the reliability of the three major suppliers of electronic voting machines.
The latest among several security flaws to be uncovered affects thousands of Diebold touch-screen voting machines across the country that permits someone to upload their own software into a voting machine.

Computer scientist Michael Shamos, a professor at Carnegie Mellon University, says the problem is the "biggest we've ever seen." He says he is not surprised because Diebold has "a history of not paying attention to security."

Meanwhile, four Arizona plaintiffs have filed suit against Secretary of State Jan Brewer and numerous county officials to stop the implementation of touch-screen machines produced by Diebold and Sequoia Voting Systems, saying the state is wasting millions of dollars on machines that "are not trustworthy or transparent."

Voter access groups say paper balloting is the only verifiable way to ensure elections are accurate.

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