From: Ellen K. 

Yeah, I'm really disturbed by the idea of electronic voting.   I feel
like writing a letter to the editor of my local paper, maybe I'll actually do it.

On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:56:20 -0400, Mike N. 
wrote in message :

>On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:33:25 -0500, "Geo"
 wrote:
>
>>Mine had KERRY and BUSH on them with little counters under them
>>to show the number of votes for each. One of the counters skipped every 3rd
>>vote. 
>
>   ROFL!   The sad part is that there is a very real parallel to the real
>voting machines.   In a "hack a vote" challenge, a professor
divided up his
>team in 2 groups and had them validate and hack each other's voting
>systems.   The concensus was that it is extermely difficult to detect hacks
>embedded in source code even when the source code is available for review.
>In the end, users needed to follow CVS flags of modified code areas to
>track hacks.
>
>   My opinion is that the state of electronic voting machines is passable
>for the current election, assuming extensive auditing by election boards
>and no collusion among all workers of a particular precinct.   The only
>group pleased by all this is the lawyers; no matter the outcome, they will
>automatically challenge the results and bill the hours by the thousands!

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