Brennan Center for Justice releases review on e-voting vulnerabilities

[babylonsister]

YES! Finally getting more much-needed attention?!

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-26-e-voting_x.htm

Analysis finds e-voting machines vulnerable

WASHINGTON — Most of the electronic voting machines widely adopted since the disputed 2000 presidential election "pose a real danger to the integrity of national, state and local elections," a report out Tuesday concludes.

There are more than 120 security threats to the three most commonly purchased electronic voting systems, the study by the Brennan Center for Justice says. For what it calls the most comprehensive review of its kind, the New York City-based non-partisan think tank convened a task force of election officials, computer scientists and security experts to study e-voting vulnerabilities.

The study, which took more than a year to complete, examined optical scanners and touch-screen machines with and without paper trails. Together, the three systems account for 80% of the voting machines that will be used in this November's election.

While there have been no documented cases of these voting machines being hacked, Lawrence Norden, who chaired the task force and heads the Brennan Center's voting-technology assessment project, says there have been similar software attacks on computerized gambling slot machines.

"It is unrealistic to think this isn't something to worry about" in terms of future elections, he says.

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[IndyOp]

1. Your link isn't working... (n/t)

[babylonsister]

2. Link fixed (I hope):

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-06-26-e-voting_x.htm

[IndyOp]

3. Link Fixed! And here is a direct link to the Brennan Center

http://www.brennancenter.org/

The new report isn't up yet, though the center does have a number of reports posted - they've been working on e-voting / voting rights for several years.

:toast:

[babylonsister]

4. I heard this on Wash. Journal this a.m.; piqued my interest.

This report sounds like it could be very interesting!

[IndyOp]

5. I am delighted! We need *all hands on deck* - NOW!!! ;-) (n/t)

[applegrove]

6. Thank you. GOP squeezes the **** out of us with no information. We know

the machines need to be secure. And we have no exacting proof they have been hacked. Thankfully we can pay attention to the other 49 kinds of voter suppression that have been documented and have been used to suppress the vote.

We need a "BEST VOTING" plan for each state or district. To give people confidence.. that at the very least..they need to vote and not give up.

Cause one thing for sure.. if you don't vote you will not be counted.

[mom cat]

7. Outstanding! All this

and we got TIA out of the hospital and on the mend! :bounce: