Bev Harris shows Howard Dean how voting machines can be easily hacked

[alp227]

Thom Hartmann has mentioned a TV segment in which Bev Harris demonstrated how to hack a voting machine. I found that segment on this website (link is a transcript) and have uploaded it to YouTube for future preservation. Jump to the 3:00 mark for the hacking segment, in between Dean's background report and interview with Kevin Shelley (then the Secretary of State for California). This was from the August 8, 2004 edition of CNBC's Topic A with Tina Brown, with Dean as guest host. (Edited out YouTube link since video was blocked due to NBC copyright...grr...but video still available on the link earlier.)

[msongs]

1. posting this stuff is a waste as the democratic party cares not about it nt

[Laurajr]

4. sorry I'm pretty new here

so are you being sarcastic in your response and secondly what does the nt mean that I see after some posts

[1monster]

8. I've forgotten the details, but Bev Harris has a history here with DU and it is a very sour

history... Gave lots of people here indigestion for quite some time.

[soleft]

2. Bev Harris! Wow, there's a name from the past

[KaryninMiami]

3. An oldie but a goodie. Funny thing-

We are STILL voting on those very same, easy to hack, corporately owned, machines. Not really funny- more like pathetic.

[Laurajr]

5. in some ways the U.S. is very backwards

like these voting machines or when you compare our major airports like JFK with other airports or our transportation systems. It is very sad indeed.

[Kelvin Mace]

7. Depends on your state

NC has pretty tough laws on the books about voting machines, and has mostly OpScan. Last time I looked, only 2 counties were using TS systems, and the law mandates they must have a voter-verifiable paper print out for each vote cast.

Also, post election random audits must be conducted to look for any disparity between paper counts and digital counts, with paper counts trumping digital in the case of discrepancies.

[Kelvin Mace]

6. Could we please avoid bring Bev Harris up?

Don't we have enough intramural wars going on?