{"id":6106,"date":"2005-12-16T12:32:31","date_gmt":"2005-12-16T17:32:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6106"},"modified":"2005-12-16T12:32:31","modified_gmt":"2005-12-16T17:32:31","slug":"a-different-kind-of-hackery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/a-different-kind-of-hackery\/","title":{"rendered":"A different kind of hackery"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are plenty of people who follow Diebold and suspect voting machines closer than I do, but this story<\/a>, brought to my attention by a reader in Florida, adds to the already considerable cause for concern.<\/p>\n

Voting machines used in four Central Florida counties might be flawed.<\/p>\n

There’s new evidence that computer hackers could change election results without anyone knowing about it, WESH 2 News reported.<\/p>\n

The supervisor of elections in Tallahassee tested voting machines several times over the last several months, and on Monday, his workers were able to hack into a voting machine and change the outcome. He said that same thing might have happened in Volusia County in 2000.<\/p>\n

The big controversy revolves around a little black computer card that is smaller than a floppy disk and bigger than a flash drive. The card is inserted into voting machines that scan paper ballots. The card serves as the machine’s electronic brain.<\/p>\n

But when Ion Sancho, Leon County’s Supervisor of Elections, tested the Diebold system and allowed experts to manipulate the card electronically, he could change the outcome of a mock election without leaving any kind of trail. In other words, someone could fix an election and no one would know.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sancho added that he now believes someone with access changed vote totals in Volusia County in 2000. “Someone with access to the vote center in Volusia County put it on a memory card and uploaded it into the main system,” Sancho said.<\/p>\n

As John Cole explained<\/a> very well this morning, there’s simply no reason for this to be an ideological fight between the left and right.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I have really decided this electronic voting movement is not a good thing- at least for now. I just don’t think that a system this open to fraud, with or without a paper trail (and to make matters worse, most don’t give receipts), is a good idea, and I rush to embrace every new technology there is. Furthermore, as I have stated before, the simple fact that it erodes confidence in the electoral process should be reason enough to can it for now.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree wholeheartedly. I want to know, of course, just how many votes may have been changed in Volusia County — home to populous communities like Daytona Beach and Edgewater — in 2000 and 2004, but there’s a bigger issue here. These voting machines are everywhere and there are serious questions about their reliability. It’s a problem that undermines the democratic process and needs a remedy. Now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There are plenty of people who follow Diebold and suspect voting machines closer than I do, but this story, brought to my attention by a reader in Florida, adds to the already considerable cause for concern. Voting machines used in four Central Florida counties might be flawed. There’s new evidence that computer hackers could change […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}