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link:<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Video_CNN_demonstrates_hacking_evotes_to_0918.html" target="top">Video: CNN demonstrates e-vote hacks to tilt midterms</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>comment: to me this should be THE primary concern to every voter this year. they are playing it for keeps now!</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>CNN explores the possibility of midterm e-vote hacks in the following video clips. In one clip, investigators demonstrate that a single hacker could use a virus to infect large numbers of electronic voting machines.<br><br>The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University has studied the security of one popular electronic voting machine produced by Diebold. The study, titled "Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine", located serious security flaws "that undermine the accuracy and credibility of the vote counts".<br><br>The Center for Information Technology Policy's website contains the full report, as well as a comprehensive video demonstration a Diebold Accuvote-TS voting machine hack. <br> <p>___________________________________________<br>"BushCo aren't incompetent...they are Complicit!" -Me<br><br>"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act" -George Orwell<br><br>"When I despair, I remember that all through history the ways of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants, and murderers, and for a time they can seem invincible, but in the end they always fall. Think of it - always." -Mahatma Gandhi</p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=dugoboy@rigorousintuition>dugoboy</A>  <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://www.geocities.com/orcthrasher/files/images/Qn38113.gif" BORDER=0> at: 9/20/06 12:56 pm<br></i>

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>comment: to me this should be THE primary concern to every voter this year. they are playing it for keeps now!</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>I agree dugoboy. Nothing else, at this moment in time, matters as much as the integrity of the vote. If we can't <!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>throw the bums out</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END-->, not one thing will change, and will indeed get worse, probably immediately.<br> <p></p><i></i>

well so whadda we do? Demand paper? Its a little late now....this was the plan all along. We will never have accurate votes again! <p></p><i></i>

Request absentee ballots. My grandmother actually suggested this to me last month. But the reality is that is the voting machine is broken, it doesn't matter if it's counted by hand or digitally.<br><br>Maybe it's time to vote with pitchforks and torches; that seemed to work fine back in the day..<br><br> <p>____________________<br>Some are born to sweet delight, some are born to endless night.</p><i></i>

Maybe do like they did in Thailand. Don't vote. Then see how many votes the "winners" get?<br><br>I'd stake my future on it being a tiny minority. <p></p><i></i>

I might suggest insisting on paper ballots, or requesting absentee ballots, and then spoiling your ballot in some way that prevents it from being read electronically, e.g., scribbling on the bar code. I don't know if it's any better that it be counted by hand, but it might be.<br>Lots easier to mess with machines than to try to make all the human hand-counters complicit.<br><br><!--EZCODE EMOTICON START :( --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/frown.gif ALT=":("><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> Good luck, Americans. <p></p><i></i>