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we have passed out of the bad politcal thriller territory and into an SNL skit lands with a "voter fraud" button built into the back of the machine
Days before the election, state officials have learned that California's most widely used electronic voting machines feature a button in back that can allow someone to vote multiple times.
Several computer scientists said Wednesday that the vulnerability found in all touch-screen machines sold by Oakland-based Sequoia Voting Systems was not especially great because using the yellow button for vote fraud would require reaching far behind the voting machine twice and triggering two beeps.
"If the machine beeps loudly and someone has their arms wrapped around the machine, the poll workers are going to become suspicious," said David Wagner, a computer security and voting system expert at the University of California, Berkeley.
"It's kind of hard for me to see how this could be used very widely," he said. "It's retail fraud, so it's onesies and twosies and can only affect very close races."
A former poll worker in Tehama County tried alerting state elections officials to the vulnerability about a month ago and said he was told the problem did not seem significant. Ron Watt then obtained poll worker-training documents through a public records request and brought them to the attention last Friday of the state's chief voting systems tester.
On Monday, state elections officials issued a caution to the more than one-third of California counties that use Sequoia equipment, including Santa Clara County, where the touch screens are the primary voting system, and Alameda County, which relies on almost 1,000 machines as a secondary voting system intended for disabled voters. State elections officials reminded the counties to keep a close eye on the machines and post warnings that tampering with election equipment is a crime.
oh, and then there's this
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Orange County's top prosecutor Monday defended his delay until a week before the election in outlining charges filed against a dozen people accused of switching registered Democrats to Republicans without their knowledge.
The registration fraud cases were filed last Tuesday, and at least three of the defendants were arrested on Wednesday and Thursday. The arrests were revealed last week by Orange County's Democratic leadership.
How come I never read news stories about registered Republicans being illegally switched to Democrats without their knowledge? Or, right, it's because it's our beacon of moral values, the Republican Party, that has the monopoly on electoral fraud in this country.
Also funny how this is news NOW. Of course, it was reported at the time--but the US media refused to run the story, bringing us the "countdown to invasion" or whatever the fuck called.
Come on, do you really think that the monsters in power are going to let Democrats win congress or house? They have enough electronic machines (now with convenient fraud buttons!) installed in Matrix USA to ensure that doesn't happen.
Days before the election, state officials have learned that California's most widely used electronic voting machines feature a button in back that can allow someone to vote multiple times.
Several computer scientists said Wednesday that the vulnerability found in all touch-screen machines sold by Oakland-based Sequoia Voting Systems was not especially great because using the yellow button for vote fraud would require reaching far behind the voting machine twice and triggering two beeps.
"If the machine beeps loudly and someone has their arms wrapped around the machine, the poll workers are going to become suspicious," said David Wagner, a computer security and voting system expert at the University of California, Berkeley.
"It's kind of hard for me to see how this could be used very widely," he said. "It's retail fraud, so it's onesies and twosies and can only affect very close races."
A former poll worker in Tehama County tried alerting state elections officials to the vulnerability about a month ago and said he was told the problem did not seem significant. Ron Watt then obtained poll worker-training documents through a public records request and brought them to the attention last Friday of the state's chief voting systems tester.
On Monday, state elections officials issued a caution to the more than one-third of California counties that use Sequoia equipment, including Santa Clara County, where the touch screens are the primary voting system, and Alameda County, which relies on almost 1,000 machines as a secondary voting system intended for disabled voters. State elections officials reminded the counties to keep a close eye on the machines and post warnings that tampering with election equipment is a crime.
oh, and then there's this
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Orange County's top prosecutor Monday defended his delay until a week before the election in outlining charges filed against a dozen people accused of switching registered Democrats to Republicans without their knowledge.
The registration fraud cases were filed last Tuesday, and at least three of the defendants were arrested on Wednesday and Thursday. The arrests were revealed last week by Orange County's Democratic leadership.
How come I never read news stories about registered Republicans being illegally switched to Democrats without their knowledge? Or, right, it's because it's our beacon of moral values, the Republican Party, that has the monopoly on electoral fraud in this country.
Also funny how this is news NOW. Of course, it was reported at the time--but the US media refused to run the story, bringing us the "countdown to invasion" or whatever the fuck called.
Come on, do you really think that the monsters in power are going to let Democrats win congress or house? They have enough electronic machines (now with convenient fraud buttons!) installed in Matrix USA to ensure that doesn't happen.
