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The draft report includes statements from election officials, voting system vendors, computer scientists and other experts in the field about what is potentially possible in terms of attacks on DREs. However, these statements are not report conclusions." [101] A Diebold Election Systems, Inc. model AccuVote-TSx DRE voting machine with VVPAT ...
This voting system was being tested for military voters and overseas citizens, allowing them to vote on the Web, and was scheduled to run later that year. It only took the hackers, a team of computer scientists, thirty-six hours to find the list of the government's passwords and break into the system. [126]
This system, known as the Sailau Electronic Voting System (АИС «Сайлау»), saw its first use in Kazakhstan's 2004 Parliamentary elections. The final form of the system, as used in the presidential election of 2005 and the parliamentary election of 2007, has been described as using "indirect recording electronic voting."
The project was cancelled in 2004 after a report critical of the program was published. [4] Accenture, who acquired election.com in 2003, [ 3 ] has received criticism for its role in SERVE and other failed and cancelled electronic voting and registration projects.
In a DRE voting machine system, a touch screen displays choices to the voter, who selects choices, and can change their mind as often as needed, before casting the vote. Staff initialize each voter once on the machine, to avoid repeat voting. Voting data are recorded in memory components, and can be copied out at the end of the election.
This method was discovered by Finnish computer security expert Harri Hursti and is known as "the Hursti Hack". In this hack, Harri Hursti rigged the Diebold optical scan voting system to make the wrong candidate win by adding negative (minus) votes to one race. This resulted in that race having votes literally subtracted from its vote total.
In 2008, Open Voting Consortium demonstrated the system at a mock election for LinuxWorld. [ 12 ] [ 13 ] In 2019, Microsoft made its ElectionGuard software open-source , which the company claims is used by all major manufacturers of voting systems (in the United States), [ 14 ] however they have come under fire for obstructing the adoption of ...
Black Box Voting engaged the services of Dr. Herbert Hugh Thompson and Harri Hursti. [1] Dr. Thompson and Hursti believed they could change or hack vote totals without the system detecting entry. The first two projects targeted the computer program that adds up all the voting machine results and produces the final report.