Diebold voting machines can be beaten with a switch-flip

Oh goody. Election theft with simple tools, leaving no trace. Gotta love the modern world.

From BoingBoing, we read:

Diebold voting machines can be beaten with a switch-flip

Diebold's voting machines are even less secure than previously suspected. Inspection of a Diebold machine by the open Voting Foundation revealed that all it takes to get a Diebold machine to boot a modified, crooked operating system is the flip of a switch, a task that can be accomplished in a brief moment using nothing but a screwdriver. Diebold has strenuously resisted calls for its voting machines to be fitted with paper audit-tapes that would record the votes cast for comparison against the electronic tally, and has used legal threats to keep critics from publishing memos detailing earlier flaws discovered in its machines. If you want to steal an election, use a Diebold machine.

More here. I wonder how good Joe Lieberman's relation with Diebold is? Not to mention Jeb Bush, or even, shudder, Cat-Killer Frist.

And I still wish George Soros would just purchase Diebold outright in a hostile takeover.

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