Salon is reporting that those touch-screen, computerized voting machines, which are taking over these days, are susceptible to hacking and other mischief, and might have already been hacked. There might also be a conflict–of–interest going on:
Harris had stumbled on what seemed to be a striking conflict of interest — a US senator owned a share in a company that built all the vote–counting machines in his state. She put up the relevant documents on her site,
and immediately I knew I’d hit a sore spot,she says,because right away I got a threat letter from ES&S.
The Hamilton County Board of Elections is currently trialing a system of its own electronic voting machines. Hopefully, we can trust that there won’t be a confict–of–interest here.
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