This is what Doc Mana was talking about.

On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Holden Hao <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, May 4, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Jeoffrey Lim <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > http://www.noypiako.org/aes/hacks
>
> Kulang.
>
> Here is another thing that can happen.
>
> 1. Find a "friendly" province.
> 2. Use fake ballots during election day.  People will not know the
> difference between the fake and the original.
> 3. Pre program the PCOS firmware to accept fake ballots on election day.
> 4. Pre program the PCOS firmware to show rigged results.
> 5. When the results are in and people are not looking, stuff the
> ballots with the real ones.*
> 6.  When an audit occurs, the machine (even with the digitally signed
> firmware) will produce the same result.
>
> * The real ballots can be mechanically shaded by high speed plotters.
> The signatures, thumb marks, etc. (if required) of voters can be faked
> by humans or by the plotters since signatures, thumbmarks have been
> encoded in digital form.  They do not need to be perfect since in the
> case of a recount they might not be checked thoroughly.
>
>
>
> Holden
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