On 10/15/03 21:20, Jerry Yeager wrote > >Not for the faint of heart ... > >http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/story.jsp?story=452972 >
The Hopkins report noted that there are 3 tables (think: spreadsheets) which keep track of the votes. The one which counts for the election is different from that which is verified by each of the polling place heads (county clerks, say), and can be changed by authorized users. To make matters worse, it is possible to turn off the transaction log (the file which keeps track of changes to the database) and to actually change the entries in the transaction logs to cover any kind of tampering. While the suspicions of actual tampering may or may not be true, the Diebold systems sure look like a disaster waiting to happen. Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be October 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
