Re:US election system reveals frightening vulnerabilities at...
by Animats on Sunday October 28, 2018 @05:16PM
(#18323249)
Unfortunately, yes. Read. "What Went Wrong in Ohio" [2005], from House Judiciary Committee staff.[1]
Among other things, the CEO of Diebold Election Systems was Ohio state Republican chair.[2] The security of voting machines remains very weak.[3]
"Our concerns are exacerbated by the fact that there are very few companies who manufacture and operate voting machines, and they tend to be controlled by executives who donate largely, if not exclusively, to the Republican Party and Republican candidates."
"Diebold’s Express Poll 5000 machines were even easier to crack, thanks to having an easily accessible memory card, which you could swap out while voting, containing supervisor passwords in plain text."
"The "security" of these WINvote machines is so bad. Running WinXP, autorun enabled and hard-coded WEP wifi password."
"Our concerns are exacerbated by the fact that there are very few companies who manufacture and operate voting machines, and they tend to be controlled by executives who donate largely, if not exclusively, to the Republican Party and Republican candidates."
"Diebold’s Express Poll 5000 machines were even easier to crack, thanks to having an easily accessible memory card, which you could swap out while voting, containing supervisor passwords in plain text."
"The "security" of these WINvote machines is so bad. Running WinXP, autorun enabled and hard-coded WEP wifi password."
[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20050203193203/https://www.house... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walden_O%27Dell [3] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/13/defcon_election_vot...