Electronic Voting Gets Punk'd

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Electronic voting machines may be worse than hanging chads. A Dutch anti-electronic voting group demonstrated how easy it is to actually steal votes from one group and assign them to another with only brief access to the machines before an election. They were even able to get one machine to play chess!

90% of Dutch elections use the devices (Nedap machines), and the story came out on the evening news--a scandal is a-brewin' in Holland. Meanwhile, on our own shores, more and more problems are being discovered with the voting machines used here. Most recently, a group of voters in San Francisco sued Alameda county to block the use of the new voting machines there.

The Dutch Anti-Electronic Voting Group

The San Francisco Story

 

 

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