Internet sites like BradBlog have been warning for years that electronic voting machines are not secure and can be easily hacked.  Too many secretaries of states and other election officials who were wined and dined and otherwise persuaded to sink the millions they received from the Republican controlled Congress under the Help American Vote Act (HAVA) into buying these pig in a poke, vote manipulation machines, from mostly Republican owned companies, stubbornly refused to accept the evidence that these demonstrations offered by computer experts which showed how unsecure these touch screen machines, even those with paper trails.

 

All of them should read the following and weep; so should every voter.

 

From BradBlog: "The Computer Security Group at the University of California Santa Barbara (UCS has released a short, chilling video demonstrating how a single person can hack an election on a touch-screen voting system --- even one with a so-called "Voter Verifiable Paper Trail" (VVPAT) added to it --- in such a way that it is highly unlikely that the manipulation would ever be detected by either the public or election officials.

"The video which shows "just examples of the different ways in which the system can be compromised" is the latest in a similar string of such demonstrations that have been released over the last two years, all showing how easily electronic voting systems can be tampered with, often undetectably.

"The UCSB Security Group page notes that electronic voting systems are exceedingly vulnerable to malicious manipulation of the type demonstrated in their video.

" 'While most critical systems are continuously scrutinized and evaluated for safety and correctness, electronic voting systems are not subject to the same level of scrutiny,' they write.

"A number of recent studies have shown that most (if not all) of the electronic voting systems being used today are fatally flawed, and that their quality does not match the importance of the task that they are supposed to carry out."

"The hack demonstration video published by the California academics wouldn't be the first such video to detail exactly how an electronic voting system can be hacked by a single malicious individual."

Read the entire article and watch the video.  You'll understand why no E-voting should be allowed in any election in the United States.  Only paper ballots which can be counted and recounted.

Unfortunately, state election officials were not required to watch these demonstrations by computer experts before they were scammed by E-voting machine companies.