Thursday, March 23, 2006

Touch-Screen Voting System Under FIre

The San Francisco Chronicle is reporting:

A group of California voters is challenging Secretary of State Bruce McPherson's approval of a controversial touch-screen voting system the group claims is vulnerable to hackers looking to change election results.

The suit, put together by the voting rights group Voter Action, asks a San Francisco Superior Court to nullify February's conditional certification of Diebold Election System's AccuVote-TSx electronic voting system and ban the purchase or use of the system for the November statewide election.

"We can't have trustworthy elections with Diebold's voting machines,'' said Lowell Finley, co-director of Voter Action who is an attorney in the case. "They are insecure and easily hacked."
Why would anyone in his right mind want to use Diebold?