Comments on: Sequoia voting machines can’t do simple addition

By: What if Diebold was bought out by Steve Wynn or Donald Trump? | Scott Wright's Security Views

Thu, 27 Mar 2008 02:41:11 +0000

[...] Sadly, Diebold, one of the biggest electronic voting machine manufacturers in the USA has been getting some bad press regarding their machines’ alleged accuracy issues. Martin McKeay put up this post with a mock news video about electronic voting machine risks the other day (click HERE). [...]

By: Robert Penz Blog » 1+13+40+3+4 = 60 or 61?

Robert Penz Blog » 1+13+40+3+4 = 60 or 61? — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:09:32 +0000

[...] also a look at this humorous little video concerning (which I found here) how insecure voting machines [...]

By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 13:47:42 +0000

More to the point, how would many politicians get elected if they couldn’t rig the voting process?

I’m a realist, I don’t expect a perfect voting system. But I do want one that isn’t susceptible to wholesale fraud and has enough internal checks and balances to be successfully audited if there is fraud. After all, no one wants some hacker to make Corey Doctorow next President of the United States. Or Robin Williams.

By: Raffi

Raffi — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:21:25 +0000

Its really unfortunate. On the one hand, I think if gov’t paid a major manufacturer enough to Open Source a voting machine to provide additional scrutiny, it has the potential to streamline the process and increase accuracy.

On the other hand, what will politicians complain about if voting couldn’t be rigged?