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Electronic Vote Stealing
September 13th, 2006I have before confessed to a previous life as a technocrat. This life of sin led me to deep and disturbing understanding of two related evils in our universe: computer software and how easily systems are hacked. Truth be told I started climbing the techie career path by hacking a NASA computer while slaving away for McDonnell Douglas at Kennedy Space Center.
So when politicians and alleged journalist mused melodramatically about the glories of electronic voting, I started hollering heatedly about how votes would soon be stolen … without detection. A relatively unsophisticated hack would simply decided in advance who should win, and by what percentage so the theft was not immediately obvious or worthy of detailed investigation. The only place this would not occur would be Chicago as their elections are already fixed in using old fashioned means.
Princeton University has now validated my claim. In the video they demonstrate not only the vote stealing process, but how little time it takes to install the malware.
The danger herein is not some external miscreant breaking and entering a polling equipment depot, but a determined local elections official with a political bias and agenda. If your county uses Diebold voting equipment and the election results do not match pre-election polling … it may be time to invest in tar and feathers.
