” Ohio electronic voting machines vulnerable in 2008″

AP offers this report, which begins: “A Treo and a magnet would be tools enough to tamper with the workings of electronic voting machines used in Ohio as well as across the country, the political swing state’s top elections official said Friday. In a $1.9 million review with national implications, both corporate and academic scientists identified a host of ways in which votes cast on touch-screen technology are vulnerable to manipulation. Such machines have been purchased across the U.S. as part of a $3 billion conversion laid out in the federal Help America Vote Act.” You can access Secretary Bruner’s report here UPDATE: See this NY Times report.

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