Fergie's Tech Blog

Ohio County Possibly Exposed Election System to Computer Virus

Via Freedon to Tinker.

The memory cards that will be used to store votes on Election Day in Cuyahoga County, Ohio were stuck into ordinary laptop computers in September, possibly exposing the county’s election system to a virus infection. This serious security lapse was caught on video through the efforts of Cleveland resident Adele Eisner and Cleveland-area filmmaker Jeffrey Kirkby, who has graciously made his raw footage available on the Internet for personal viewing at
http://homepage.mac.com/captainkirkby/Data_Crunch/iMovieTheater87.html

Just one month ago a Princeton evoting study (available at http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting) showed that the memory cards used in Diebold touchscreen voting systems could carry computer viruses that would infect voting machines and steal votes on the infected machines.

posted by Fergie @ 11/02/2006 12:39:00 PM