Elections Rigged - Programmer Testimony - Computer Code Written to Rig US Elections

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Computer Programmer Testimony He Was Requested to Write Code to Rig U.S. Elections

Clinton Eugene Curtis, a computer programmer from Florida, testified before a congressional panel that there are computer programs that can be used to secretly fix elections. He explains how he created a prototype for Florida Congressman Tom Feeny that would flip the vote 51%-49% in favor of a specified candidate.

This happened all the way back in 2001 but you might not have heard anything about this claim unless you searched for it. I've seen a Wired News report on this topic and a few local Florida newspaper stories but otherwise, no real media coverage has been provided. Crazy, right? You'd think claims of election rigging software would be splattered all over the news in a sensationalist style a la Weinergate. But no, as it turns out, our news media prefers to point out voting fraud in other nations but not here at home.

I'm not arguing in support of the claims Clinton Curtis makes and I'm not dismissing them. I'm merely pointing out that major news outlets did not cover this story ten years ago. Something this newsworthy - coming from the same state the Bush/Gore election hinged upon - was ignored. With potentially national implications that seem obvious to me, I'm shocked ten years and two elections have gone by with no media mention of these allegations.

How many voting polls now use computer programs for voting? Whether Curtis was right about the alleged voter fraud at the hands of Rep. Tom Feeny is irrelevant. The potential for this kind of software to exist is enough to warrant skepticism on the reliability of computerized voting machines. The lack of media attention on a congressional panel hearing about such fraud is even more frightening.

Mr Curtis a Software programmer who worked for NASA, Exxon Mobil & the US Department of Transportation in a sworn-oath deposition testifies that US elections are rigged by inserting software into the voting system. The timing of this deposition was just after George W Bush being re-elected president of the United States. We are not surprised that this never made it into the main stream media.

Mr Curtis goes on to name US Representatives who attempted to pay him to rig their election vote counts.

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Questions linger in US on high-tech voting
March 11th, 2012

A series of problems with electronic voting machines has raised fresh questions about election technology as newer computerized systems gain ground for the 2012 US election.

As many as 25 percent of Americans are expected to use paperless electronic voting machines in the upcoming November elections, according to the Verified Voting Foundation, but confidence has been eroded by incidents showing vulnerabilities.

The foundation, which seeks more reliable election systems, contends that voting machines in 11 states are all-electronic, with no paper systems for recounts, and that many other jurisdictions have some of these systems in place.

Last year, Microsoft Research published a paper describing vulnerabilities to what had been described as "fully verifiable" direct recording electronic (DRE) systems in which a hacker can "undetectably alter large numbers of votes."

Separately, scientists at Argonne National Laboratory described a way to tamper with certain electronic voting machines by inserting a $10 component along with a $15 radio frequency device to alter vote results.

Pamela Smith of the Verified Voting Foundation said these incidents highlight the fact "that you can have insider challenges as well as outsider hacks. It points out that you have to be able to check the system."

Election security and technology has been an issue in the United States since the 2000 president election marred by "hanging chads" in Florida that muddled the result.

US laws enacted since then encourage the use of new technology including touch-screen ballots. But some critics say these can be vulnerable to hackers and that some lack a "paper trail" which could allow a recount in case of machine failure.

"We still have a number of states which do not have what I call resilient recountable systems," Smith said.

"If they do have problems they may not be able to recover from them. So we would like states to move to recoverable systems where they could do a recount if there were a problem."

Last September, researchers led by Roger Johnston at the Argonne lab were able to change votes on the a ballot machine using about $25 worth of equipment, by inserting a device to manipulate touch screens by remote control

"We believe these 'man in the middle attacks' are possible on a wide variety of voting machines," with little technical expertise, Johnston said.

In October, Microsoft Research released a paper describing a so-called "trash attack" which it said could be "effective against the majority of fully verifiable election systems."

It is known as a trash attack because it would allow a corrupt elections worker, for example, see a voter dumping a receipt on the way out from a polling station, and then modify the vote without detection, and with no way to verify the original vote. Microsoft also offered a technical fix for this weakness.

Dan Wallach, a Rice University computer scientist, said little has changed since reports about vulnerabilities in voting machines began around 2007.

Full Story:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-03-...ch-voting.html