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Par Anne Broache
Un rapport récent capacité documentant informaticiens la' d'entailler dans les machines de vote certifiées pour l'usage dans l'état de la Californie a déjà commencé réverbérer sur Capitol Hill.
Sonde. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), qui s'avère justement être l'un des commanditaires en chef d'a affichez qui interdirait les machines de vote sans papier by the 2010 federal elections, says she plans to hold a hearing in September on the report in the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which she leads. The politicians are expected to break for the summer at the end of this week.
In a statement Tuesday, Feinstein expressed dismay at “how easily these machines could be hacked into and election results distorted,” based on her reading of the report.
“The findings are yet another reason that states and counties should consider a move to optical scan machines that provide an auditable, individual
without having to rely on a separate printer,” she went on.The study, commissioned by California Secretary of State Debra Bowen, focused on machines made by Diebold Election Systems, Hart InterCivic, and Sequoia Voting Systems. The University of California researchers who conducted the testing rattled off a list of security weaknesses they were able to exploit in each of the machines–although they didn’t attempt to quantify how difficult it was to carry out the hacks.
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