Reply #14: LOL: Election officials reassure voters about voting machines

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Election officials reassure voters about voting machines
October 10, 2006

During primary elections this year, electronic voting machines malfunctioned in Chicago, voters got the wrong ballots in Denver, and machines crashed in Maryland. In Minnesota, all ballots cast on Nov. 7 will be electronically counted. State election officials say voters should feel confident about the state's voting equipment.

St. Paul, Minn. — Last month, a Princeton University professor and two graduate students released a video that shows them tampering with a Diebold AccuVote-TS, the mostly widely used voting machine in the country. They used vote-stealing software to make Benedict Arnold beat George Washington in a simulated election, and they hacked into the voting machine in less than a minute.

The video may be alarming to voters, but Minnesota Secretary of State Mary Kiffmeyer wants to reassure them. She said Minnesota doesn't use the Diebold AccuVote-TS, and the state has a paper trail of every vote cast.

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