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Electronic Voting Machines Could Skew Elections
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Skew Elections
Researchers, candidates
have little confidence in machines designed to make
elections easier to call
By Jake Tapper,
Rebecca Abrahams and Eduardo Sunol
ABC News
Sunday 22 October 2006
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http://www.abcnews.go.com/WNT/Technology/story?id=2596705&page=1
Cheryl Kagan, a former Maryland Democratic legislator, was shocked when she opened her mail Wednesday morning.
Inside, she discovered three computer discs. With them was an anonymous letter saying the discs contained the secret source code for vote-counting that could be used to alter the votes cast through Maryland's new electronic voting machines.
"My understanding is that with these disks a malicious person could skew the outcome of an election," Kagan said.
Diebold, the company that makes the voting machines, told ABC News, "These discs do not alter the security of the Diebold touch-screen system in any way," because election workers can set their own passwords.
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