CA SOS Finds LA County's ES&S E-Voting System Vulnerable to Hacking, Fraud and Manipulation

[BradBlog]

CA Secretary of State Finds LA County's ES&S E-Voting System Vulnerable to Hacking, Fraud and Manipulation
Company's Flawed 'Inkavote Plus' System May be Used in Nation's Largest County During February 2008 Primary When Republican Measure to Divide State's Electoral Vote Could be on the Ballot
SoS to Hold Public Hearing on Future of Voting System Monday in Sacramento...

Now that ES&S has finally submitted their previously withheld source code and documentation to California Sec. of State Debra Bowen, her "Top-to-Bottom Review" team has been able to look at the ES&S Inkavote Plus system used across the entirety of Los Angeles County. And whaddaya know, the system is easily susceptible to fraud, hacking and manipulation.

Of particular note is the possibility that the hackable system may be used to vote on a Republican-sponsored ballot initiative to divide California's 2008 electoral vote by Congressional District which could be on the Primary Election ballot next February. Such an unprecedented measure, if passed in the Golden State, could well hand the November General Election nationally, to the Republican party given the large number of electors that would be thrown to the GOP if the current winner-take-all system of choosing electors in California --- the same one used by almost all other states --- is changed for proportional representation.

Los Angeles County itself, a reliably Democratic-leaning county over all, carries an enormous number of votes for the state. It's the largest such county in the nation, larger even than two-thirds of the states in the country. Tampering with the vote tabulation in that one county alone, could easily change enough votes to see the Electoral College initiative passed successfully across the state...

FULL DETAILS, COMPLETE STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5353

[bluestateguy]

1. Debra Bowen seems to take this issue very seriously

Bowen takes seriously the issue of the integrity of our ballots, without resorting to moonbat conspiracy theories.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. These bastards never rest, do they?

Why are they so damned tireless?

They just keep on coming at us and all the things we hold dear...

Just like the Energizer Bunny...

And we have to marshall our forces over and over and over...

Trying to stop them, divert them, halt them...

And still they just keep coming...

The price of liberty is eternal vigilance...

*sigh*

Thank you...

K&R

[Kurovski]

3. K&R. (nt)

[HCE SuiGeneris]

4. KnR

[bleever]

5. K5R,

and thank you, Brad.

[sakabatou]

6. Trying to steal the damn election again!

[Peace Patriot]

7. The simplest, easiest, cheapest, most transparent, hardest to rig solution?

HAND-COUNTED PAPER BALLOTS, RESULTS COUNTED AND POSTED AT THE PRECINCT LEVEL.

And ride those bastards at ES&S out of California on a rail! Go, Debra!

[AndyTiedye]

8. Kicking and Recommending!

:kick:

[BradBlog]

10. The alarm is much appreciated...

...Let's hope someone hears it!

[Stevepol]

9. K&R! n/t