The saga of electronic voting in California just took a turn a lot of people were hoping it would. Secretary of State Bruce McPherson has agreed to allow a computer hacker to hammer on Diebold's system to see if he can break it.
Harri Hursti, a computer security expert from Finland, will show how it is possible to turn over the the Diebold Election System and put who ever you want in power.
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The Inquirer's article:
Hursti will use a randomly selected voting machine from one of the 17 counties that use a Diebold system. Diebold wanted it to use a machine that it provided, however that idea was vetoed by the state, we assume because it didn't want a machine designed to cheat the test.
Hopefully the result of this will be for election boards to move to open-source, open systems that can be checked by multiple experts and fixed in a transparent fashion.