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As Elections Near, Officials Challenge Balloting Security

In Controlled Test, Results Are Manipulated in Florida System

By Zachary Goldfarb

Special to The Washington Post

Sunday, January 22, 2006; Page A06

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Questions about the security of electronic voting machines have been circulating widely in recent years. But many of the concerns have been dismissed as the fantasies of Internet conspiracy theorists or sore-loser partisans who could not accept that their candidates simply got fewer votes. Critics have not demonstrated that any real elections have had returns altered by the manipulation of electronic voting systems.

But the questions raised by Sancho, who has held his post since 1989, show how the concerns are being taken more seriously among elections professionals.

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"You have to admit these systems are vulnerable and act accordingly," Hursti said.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/21/AR2006012101051.html


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