From slashdot:
“The folks at Open Voting Foundation got their hands on a Diebold AccuVote TS touchscreen voting machine. They took it apart (pictures here), and found the most serious security flaw ever discovered in this machine. A single switch is all that is required to cause the machine to boot an unverified external flash instead of the builtin verified EEPROM.”
For those baffled by jargon: it’s really easy, by flipping one switch and inserting a single chip, to start up one of these machines with any program you like. The implication is that it would be very easy to commit massive voter fraud, by making a program that looks like the real thing, but (for example) tallies a Bush vote instead of a Kerry vote, say, half the time. Also from the article: “This model does not produce a voter verified paper trail so there is no way to check if the voter’s choices are accurately reflected in the tabulation.”
Jerks.