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Diebold Voting Machine Hacked in Four Minutes

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Posted on Sep 6, 2006
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Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting recently got her hands on a Diebold voting machine and was able to hack it in four minutes with tools that cost $12.  Harris’ handiwork is just the latest demonstration of how vulnerable electronic voting machines are to vote manipulation.

The debate over the legitimacy of these machines is a strange one.  On the one hand you have the politicians and government officials who certify the machines insisting that they are safe and reliable.  On the other: the bloggers, engineers and technology buffs who’ve been documenting the vulnerabilities of these devices for years.  When people who organize their lives around technology celebrate the paper ballot, they may be worth listening to.

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By bg1, September 7, 2006 at 8:56 am #
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The US is descending into the 3rd world, at politically.  We’re becoming more and more like Mexico, where a rich minority routinely steals elections.  What’s next?  Political assasinations?

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By kevin99999, September 6, 2006 at 5:46 pm #
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The fact that this voting can be easily hacked into is precislely the reason why GOP wants to use this machine without any trace of paper ballots. Even the third world has a better voting system then the U.S. The U.S. electoral system is corrupt, along with corruption in the highest levels of government, including the White House and the judiciary.

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By Gandersen, September 6, 2006 at 3:55 pm #
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If we as a society allow electronic voting, we will never ever again have an elected official we vot on.  These machines are not only hackable, but subjet to tampering by elected officials and or the employees at the manufacture.(lets face it, big corporations like diebold are tied to Washington DC, all large corporations are)

I have seen demonstrations where a machine can be set up so the votes are skued a specific direction.

This is way too scary.  There is no recorse.

We are all sheep and pobably will not do anyting to block it. 

We the people will get the shaft.

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By Spunky, September 6, 2006 at 3:36 pm #
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What is needed is a concerted effort from progressives to systematically hack the machines in our favor in the key states (exactly what is being done by the Republicans for their candidates now). The black boxes are here to stay, so we might as well use (abuse) them ourselves.

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