[LINK] more on evoting hacking

[Jan Whitaker]

>Scientists Hack Voting Machines to Prove Tech Weaknesses
>http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/072807Y.shtml
>"Computer scientists from California universities have hacked into 
>three electronic voting systems used in California and elsewhere in 
>the nation and found several ways in which vote totals could 
>potentially be altered, according to reports released yesterday by 
>the state," reports Christopher Drew in Saturday's edition of the 
>New York Times.
>
>Florida Voting Machines Can Be Hacked
>http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/080107J.shtml
>Marc Caputo reports for The Miami Herald, "Reversing an unofficial 
>policy of denial, the Florida Secretary of State's office has 
>conducted an elections study that confirmed Tuesday what a maverick 
>voting chief discovered nearly two years ago: Insider computer 
>hackers can change votes without a trace on Diebold optical-scan machines."

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