All five voting systems used in Ohio, a state whose electoral votes narrowly swung two elections toward President Bush, have critical flaws that could undermine the integrity of the 2008 general election, a report commissioned by the state’s top elections official has found.
“It was worse than I anticipated,” the official, Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, said of the report. “I had hoped that perhaps one system would test superior to the others.”
At polling stations, teams working on the study were able to pick locks to access memory cards and use hand-held devices to plug false vote counts into machines. At boards of election, they were able to introduce malignant software into servers . . .
The study released Friday found that voting machines and central servers made by Elections Systems and Software; Premier Election Solutions, formerly Diebold; and Hart InterCivic; were easily corrupted.
Ohio Elections Official Calls Machines Flawed
Hart InterCivic manufactures the eVoting machines used in Lancaster County, including the unverifiable eSlates so dear to State Senate candidate Stevie McDonald's heart. So, Stevie Mac, what's your response to "easily corrupted?" Maybe you can get your pal Guzzardi to sponsor some robocalls to refute the Ohio study. That's government reform for sure.
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