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The plaintiffs allege that the Diebold TSX -- unlike other Diebold voting machines -- is a security risk and does not accommodate all disabled voters as required by law. The allegations say that the system is difficult to audit or recount and has been proven vulnerable to tampering.

Finley said that just last month, a team of three California scientists "found 16 ways to hack the system and leave no trace."

"A single individual who gets access to one of the memory cards used in the machine can, in a very short time, change the software code that changes the outcome of the election," he said. "He can leave no trace that the tampering has occurred."
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
 

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