Coming soon to an election near you?
Today, at wee hours Maharashtra police landed up at the residence of Hari Prasad in Hyderabad, a technologist and Technical coordinator of VeTA to arrest him. The arrest was made on the flimsy charge of ‘theft of EVM’ used for vulnerability demonstration by Hari Prasad and a team of security researchers that included Alex Halderman, professor of computer science, University of Michigan and Rop Gonggrijp, a security researcher from Netherlands along with a team of their colleagues.
Earlier, police came to Hyderabad in the first week of August and recorded a statement on the EVM they had used for exposing the vulnerability of EVMs. They summoned him to Mumbai for further questioning. Hari Prasad could not go as he was busy with his professional work. Then, the sudden arrest happened this morning.
Over the past one year, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has been lying blatantly and willfully to ensure continued use of EVMs at all costs. It attributed all kinds of qualities to its EVMs: “totally tamper proof, perfect, fail safe and requiring no improvement” etc. etc. When Hari Prasad agreed to meet the ECI’s challenge to demonstrate tamperability of EVMs, the ECI backed out imposing silly, unscientific restrictions.
What do you mean coming soon? Already here.
Here in Texas we use electronic voting machines with no paper trails. I don’t know why I even bother voting.
Pac-Man hacked onto an electronic voting machine without breaking the tamper proof seals:
http://bradblog.com/?p=7998
It’s already here…..what rock have you been hiding under?
Electronic balloting. The easiest way to practice voter fraud.
Now there’s a country I want to outsource all my infrastructure IT to!
In India, you vote, the machine decides.
That’s what the “Help Americans Vote Act” was all about.
Now our elections are in the hands of Microsoft, and other proprietary developers. Without open software, and an open OS running on these things, they WILL be hacked, and elections have already been thrown by these. Does the name Diebold ring a bell?
Someone please send this link to John D ASAP!
They need this on their political blog
Iowa Congresswoman states Obama is a Muslim.
I’m from Iowa, very embarrassed.
http://blogs.desmoinesregister.com/dmr/index.php/2010/08/23/obama-personally-told-the-muslims-that-he-is-a-muslim-iowa-republican-says/
What is there to be embarrassed by? Are you also embarrassed by Hillary Clinton for saying’He’s not a Muslim as far as I know’?
How about Obama telling George Stephanopoulus ‘my Muslim faith’ before George walked him back?
How about his parents for listing as a Muslim when he went to school in Indonesia?
“Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain”. In this case it’s a voting machine curtain. And it’s not the Wizard of Oz. But another faker of supreme authority. The election system’s security. And it’s more “Election Theater” that it’s totally secure and tamper proof. And proving otherwise, is considered an act of terrorism. Because the voters must all be kept lulled in a false sense of security and voter confidence. Like it really matters who gets elected, honestly. When it only takes a little more bribery, later, to taint any honest elected officials.
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