The Man throws another election

A candidate in a disputed Florida election has realized that electronic voting machines are vulnerable to fraud and other hijinks (see earlier posts) and has asked to view the source code for the closed-source machines. Unfortunately, a judge ruled that she has no right to do this despite strong evidence that the machines botched at least some of the ballots. People with a financial interest in the machines and backers of the winner say that the anomalies were probably due to "bad ballot design." That doesn't sound like the only thing that was badly designed in these elections...

Don't think the election is being thrown? Think again.

Need proof that elections that use Diebold electronic voting machines are a piece of cake to manipulate? Here's a video by some Princeton professors that show how easy it is to tip an election in someone's favor by hacking a Diebold machine.



In case you needed more proof, here's the full HBO documentary,"Hacking Democracy," on the subject: