'Daily Voting News' For March 28 and 29, 2009
'Daily Voting News' For March 28 and 29, 2009
Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
“Our voting machines cannot be hacked.” “Our voting system is not hooked up to the Internet so it is secure.” We hear this time and time again from the vendors and from election officials. Yet if it uses computers and they use software they can be hacked. Our ‘Featured’ article is another story of computer systems being looted by bad actors. Who could believe that our voting systems are not vulnerable and ripe for manipulation by the same types?...
Actually, no. Problems abound, and partisanship is not the culprit. LINK
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John Gideon
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2008