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November 06, 2006

Be afraid

Allison Fine at Personal Democracy Forum rounds up some of the scarier and more ridiculous problems with the current generation of electronic voting machines, including the fact that J. Alex Halderman writes:

The AccuVote TS machines — all of them — really can be opened by a key that is widely used for hotel mini-bars.

Ulp.

(I'm doing poll watching tomorrow.) [Tags: democracy voting_machines politics allison_fine ]

Posted by D. Weinberger at November 6, 2006 04:54 PM

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and the locks on many machines in NYC have never worked. But that has been the case for many decades. There has always been a potential for people to abuse the system, what surprises me is how many people think this is a sudden new issue because of the computer systems.

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