Just when you thought it was safe to go back on the ballot...

[unixronin]

Newly discovered Diebold weakness: The vote-summary software on Diebold machines can be hacked in Visual Basic, and the machine won't know it -- because it only tracks data changes that occur within the GEMS software.  Any external program placed on the machine can manipulate the data with impunity.

Comments

[jmkelly.livejournal.com]

Jeez, that must hurt. To be vulnerable to hacking is one thing; to be vulnerable to a hack written in Visual Basic--I feel sorry for the people who wrote Diebold's software.

But you must not have read the whole story. On page three, it says: "Diebold spokesman David Bear said by phone that no one would risk manipulating votes in an election because it's against the law and carries a heavy penalty."

See? Nothing to worry about!

[tquid.livejournal.com]

If only no one would risk writing shit voting software because it was against the law and carried a heavy penalty.

Not too late to get an absentee ballot, you know.