Stemmachines

Ik ontving deze email:

'From: Frank Tiggelaar Wij vertrouwen stemcomputers niet (We don't trust voting computers)
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>During the Dutch campaign warning of the dangers of using voting
>computers during the upcoming November 22 parliament elections, one of
>the arguments against the use of such machines came from the USA:
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>Virus beats voting machines
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>Princeton computer scientists say they have written a virus that can
>override the functions of Diebold voting machines, the U.S.'s most
>popular, altering vote counts with little chance of detection,
>Bloomberg News reported from New York.
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>The virus could modify all of the machine's records, audit logs and
>counters, the scientists, Ariel Feldman, J. Alex Halderman and Edward
>Felten, said. Someone with access to Diebold's AccuVote-TS machine, or
>to a memory card installed in it, can infect its operations in about a
>minute's time, they said.
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>More than 33,000 Diebold machines are scheduled to be in use in 357
>U.S. counties for the November elections, representing almost 10
>percent of all voters, Princeton said.
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>A demonstration of the Princeton engineers' achievement was shown on
>Dutch TV on Monday. Once these machines are in place at all polling
>stations, it would require no more than few dozen computer programmers
>to rig the outcome of any nation-wide, state or local ballots.
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>The website http://wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/ warning of the
>dangers of voting computers also contains a section in English and the
>group's opt-in newsletters are now also available in English.
>
>Frank'