With the presidential campaign in full swing, allegations of the possibility of a “stolen” race in a story published in 2006 continues to focus on whether or not Diebold Machines can be tampered with.
And ultimately alter the vote of the American people on their choice for who should be president. Diebold continues to take criticism and state governments continue to debate the necessity of offering paper ballots, which will show the individual voter their actual vote tally. As Super Tuesday approaches, where 24 states will hold primaries and caucuses to select which candidates will gain those delegates. Usually Super Tuesday is the day where the cards fall on who will move ahead, and who will pack their bags and go home.
The article says “Computer science professor Edward Felten, along with graduate students Ariel Feldman and J. Alex Halderman, published a paper in which they demonstrated the ease of installing malicious software onto a Diebold AccuVote-TS touchscreen voting machine which would alter vote totals in a real election, but be undetectable to election officials by allowing the logic and accuracy tests to pass, and by deleting itself from the voting machines at the end of the election.”
The question is are the voting machines ready for this year’s presidential election? Author Michael Hampton isn’t convinced and his words from two years ago seem to question the role of Diebold even in past elections, with comprehensive data explaining why the machines are susceptible to foul play.
Interesting, and thought-provoking read which raises more questions than answer in a highly volatile political campaign season. Will your vote count?
