RE: Guess they didn't use an iSeries...

Which is fairly easy to do if you control the software on the voting
machine.  Imagine Diebold modifying the code so that some amount of the
votes would swing from one way or the other.  Not enough to raise
suspicion but likely enough to swing the overall election.  Say, change
8% of the total votes from party A to party B.  Doing so would virtually
ensure "delivering the state of" ... "to" ...  Wait, is that what the
Diebold chief said?  Certainly they wouldn't do such a thing.

OK, I'll take off the tinfoil hat now.

John A. Jones, CISSP
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 1:00 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Guess they didn't use an iSeries...

In other words, to manipulate the totals a villain would need to change
the results as, or after, the votes are cast but before the vote totals
are removed from the voting machine?

Wayne McAlpine wrote:
> One of the first principles of managing an elections system, manual or

> automated, is that there is never just one copy of the vote totals.
> Multiple copies of the vote totals from each machine are maintained by

> different governmental entities at different locations.  Totals are 
> certified by a Board of Elections Commissioners at the local level 
> before they become final in the Secretary of State's computer system.
> It would require collusion on a massive scale to alter the totals.
> 

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