"Previous lab demonstrations of e-voting system hacks, such as Princeton's demonstration of a viral cyber attack on a Diebold touch-screen system -- as I wrote for Salon back in 2006 -- relied on cyber attacks to change the results of elections. Such attacks, according to the team at Argonne, require more coding skills and knowledge of the voting system software than is needed for the attack on the Diebold system.

Indeed, the Argonne team's attack required no modification, reprogramming, or even knowledge, of the voting machine's proprietary source code. It was carried out by inserting a piece of inexpensive "alien electronics" into the machine.

The Argonne team's demonstration of the attack on a Diebold Accuvote machine is seen in a short new video shared exclusively with the Brad Blog . The team successfully demonstrated a similar attack on a touch-screen system made by Sequoia Voting Systems in 2009.

The new findings of the Vulnerability Assessment Team echo long-ignored concerns about e-voting vulnerabilities issued by other computer scientists and security experts, the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team (an arm of the Department of Homeland Security), and even a long-ignored presentation by a CIA official given to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission."http://democracysquare.org/news/salon-dieb...


Despite warnings of theft and investigation into this national security issue, several states will be using this technology in the 2012 presidential election.... This technology is a Republican tool that does not have to respect our vote. In fact if we vote contrary to their wishes, they will just change it without any footprint.. so no matter how many eyes we have on the ground, we will never see the theft...nor will we know about it... And because election pollsters are being removed outside of the polls... for several hours at a time in spots like Butler Wisconsin....It makes it difficult to provide any meaningful oversite...



" Wisconsin suffers from the presence of many Diebold machines, and have been plagued by their new Republican governor and his rubber-stamp legislature. As Republican arrogance grows exponentially, the role of vote-turning Diebold machines will undoubtedly increase. As more and more voters turn against the GOP, Republicans will count on Diebold to flip more and more votes."http://wonkronk.blogspot.com/2011/04/repub...