I Voted! (Image by Vox Efx) Details DMCA | The technology in the computer cartridges used to program touch-screen voting machines-known as "prom pacs" or memory cards-is considered "proprietary information" and the public is not allowed to examine them. With no verifiable paper trail, we cannot know if our votes are being accurately counted.
In 2004, a computer programmer named Clint Curtis who worked for NASA testified before a House Judiciary Committee that he had been hired by Florida Republican Tom Feeney to write a program to steal votes by inserting fraudulent code into touch-screen voting systems. Since then, evidence has accumulated demonstrating that voting machines can be and in fact have been hacked. The Vulnerability Assessment Team (VAT) at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois hacked into a Diebold Accuvote touch-screen voting machine with just $26 and an 8th grade education. |