Princeton Researchers find Diebold AccuVote-TS is an Invitation to Election Fraud

Did you know that you can unlock and tamper with a voting machine using a hotel minibar key? Diebold's AccuVote-TS voting was examined by researchers from Princeton University's Center for Information Technology Policy. They demonstrate in this video (and in great detail in the technical paper found on their site) that evil doers can introduce a software program that steals votes, reproduces itself so that it spreads to other machines, and then erases itself to avoid discovery.

The executive summary for the study observes: "an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates." Visit their site for a copy of the complete study and the researcher's rebuttal to Diebold's criticism of their methods.

You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist to see that we have major problems in the integrity of our election system. In the words of one of my favorite movies, Strange Days, The issue is not whether you are paranoid, the issue is, whether you are paranoid enough.