An electronic voting machine was stolen from the home of a Dallas County elections judge over the weekend.Serial numbers can be changed, of course.
Sgt. Don Peritz, a Dallas County Sheriff spokesman, said the judge notified sheriff's dispatchers Sunday afternoon that the iVotronic touch-screen machine was stolen from his home in the 200 block of East 5th Street.
Dallas County Elections Administrator Bruce Sherbet said the machine will not function without an additional piece of hardware called a personalized electronic ballot, or PEB.
Mr. Sherbet said his employees identified the serial number of the stolen machine and have blocked it from any access to the elections system, reducing the risk of vote fraud.
People have overlooked one important factor: At least one major manufacturer of voting equipment has specified that the power cords for the machines must be "daisy-chained." In other words, polling place staffers are required to plug the machines into each other. I've yet to hear of a good technical reason for this directive.
Many people do not understand that power cords can transmit data -- new programming, for example. One would need to "jerry rig" but one machine in order to commandeer every machine in the sequence.
4 comments:
Why in the world would an election judge need to have a voting machine at his house? This is highly unusual in itself! What kind of 3rd world protocols do they follow in that county, anyway? I would think that it would be against the law to remove a voting machine from the county or precinct offices and take it home. The means of voting are kept "fair" by assuring that both (or all) parties have equal oversight.
Every vote counts... but as what?
clickety clack
Counts as what? Counts as an
endorsement of a rigged game.
Got this from the Dark Wraith's comments section:
"Did 308,000 cancelled Ohio voter registrations put Bush back in the White House?"
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