spornitz on Fri, 25 Jul 2003 17:21:50 +0200 (CEST) |
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<nettime> Is this possible? |
http://truthout.org/docs_03/voting.shtml Even if this isn't true, it "illuminates" the sick sick thing happening around us... -b quote: How To Rig An Election In The United States So how would such a system actually work? Well one way to run such a corrupt electoral system might look like this: Each voting precinct (or booth) could be fitted with electronic voting systems, optical scanning systems, punch card voting systems or the more modern touchscreen electronic voting machines; At the close of play each day the booth/precinct supervisor could be under instructions to compile an electronic record of the votes cast in their booth; They might print out a report that contains only the details of the total votes count for that precinct/booth, and then file via modem the full electronic record of votes through to the County supervisor; The County Supervisor could be equipped with a special piece of software and a bank of modems that enables all these results to be received and tabulated in the internals of the computer; The County Supervisors themselves could be assured that their system was bullet proof, certified and contained tamper-protection mechanisms par excellence; The Country Supervisor could be given a range of tools for looking at the data within this software, but nothing to enable them to directly manipulate the results; But unbeknownst to the County Supervisor the software could actually create three separate records of the voting data; Meanwhile - also unbeknownst to the County Supervisor - these three tables of voting data could be in fact completely insecure and accessible simply through a common database programme, say Microsoft Access; Having the three tables would enable you to keep the real data in place – so the system could pass spot tests on individual precincts and booth results (should a precinct supervisor be particularly astute) -while simultaneously enabling you to manipulate the bottom line result; Finally you might also enhance the election hacker's powers by including within the software a utility to enable them to cover their tracks by changing the date and time stamps on files and remove evidence of your tampering. # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo@bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@bbs.thing.net