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Princeton University has published a research paper (with accompanying demonstration video) on the Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine. What they found is pretty scary. "An attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates. An attacker could alse create malicious code that spreads automatically and silently from machine to machine during normal election activities - a voting-machine virus." There's a video on their site at http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/ that goes through the process. It may be the most scary boring video I have ever seen. We started using Diebold voting machines here in Indianola this past election. Yay? |
