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Diebold Machines
Topic: Computer Security 9:01 pm EDT, Jul 20, 2004

Well, I voted today. A few impressions.

[ My feelings echo Tom's somewhat. I think the most dangerous aspect of these machines is the certification process, pre-election access to the devices, malicious or shitty code, and hardware failure.

If you could pull smartcard shenanigans, as Decius says, it'd be all over... no one pays attention once you walk up there and pop in the card. I did notice that the cards were yellow today, but were white the last time i voted. Perhaps you'd need to take the step to match the color if you were gonna swap.

The machines plainly indicate how many votes it's taken for the day. When i went at about 10 am, my machine had already processed about 30 votes. That's only 10 an hour, so maybe each machine registers 100-250 votes... Even if somehow you could get 2 minutes per person average, you could only cram in 360 for the day. As Decius says, this substantially mitigates the effect of a single machine compromise... the election would have to very close.

I'm still not happy with these things, overall, but it could be worse. -k]

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