Elections chief tightens vote security

[Kelvin Mace]

Edit - Fixed headline error



Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2001744989_harris25m.html

King County's newly appointed elections chief has taken steps to reduce the possibility of computerized vote-tampering while he studies questions raised about possible security flaws in software the county uses to tally election results.

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Logan also said he will ask for a formal response by Diebold Election Systems to claims that the company's vote-counting systems may be vulnerable to tampering.

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Logan said he decided election security was a "legitimate issue" after internal company e-mail was posted on the Internet and discussed in a Salon.com article Monday.

The memos appeared to support reports by Renton Web journalist and author Bev Harris that election results on Diebold's GEMS software could be altered by someone using its underlying Microsoft Access software without leaving a trace in the GEMS audit log.

Reporters just can't admit without qualification that that Bev did their job and did it well.

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[jamesinca]

1. One county in one state down 1,973 to go

Good job to all those who have worked on this to get it exposed. Ok, a curious thought just occured to me. When things were going bad for Bush at first, he did not seem to care. Now that more and more states are looking at the voting machines Bush is getting concerned. I had always said that the reason that he does not care is because he knows the fix is in. If the voting machines get corrected, the fix will not be in, so he is going to have to sit up and pay attention like he is starting to do now. That is a lot easier to believe than thinking he grew a sense of morality in the last 2 months.

[phoebe]

2. keeping a beady eye on this one to see if this is pandering

or the real thing..

[4dog]

3. This is a long-term project: making voters aware of BBV hazards.

Keep on truckin.