Voting Machines Can be Hacked by Remote Control ...Salon

[TheMadMonk]

39. It's not that hard to build a trustable electronic voting device.

I've come up with a few ideas that are as different as chalk and cheese.

And on the subject of that trust, one telling thing is the very simple fact that a company like Diebold already had several good solid secure device designs, (ATMs) which could have very easily been repurposed as voting machines. And yet they chose to chuck an ATX board running a crippled but not locked down version of Windows inside a flimsy plastic case secured by a bogroll dispenser lock.

At every point where interference with the voting machine is least detectable, whenever questions of security are raised, the answer is to trust that the persons in a position to carry out such interference won't do so, because someone probably told them not to.

When you insist on retaining that which has been repeatedly identified as totally unacceptable security flaw as a "hidden" feature, there is only one viable conclusion to be drawn. Someone with the power to make it so, wants to be able to tamper with the system.