Remember when I was all fired up about the prospect of the Democrats losing the mid-term election because of electronic voting machine fraud? Well, all's well that ends well, right?
Uh…not so much.
The Washington Post reports on National Institute of Standards and Technology findings that confirm my conspiratorial fears. In short, "paperless electronic voting machines… cannot be made secure". Here's a bit more:
NIST says in its report that the lack of a paper trail for each vote "is one of the main reasons behind continued questions about voting system security and diminished public confidence in elections." The report repeats the contention of the computer security community that "a single programmer could 'rig' a major election."
In related news, Karl Rove has begun taking computer programming classes. And yes, even my blind coworker saw that one coming.
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