The Virginia election commission, which is responsible for certifying whether machines are fit to be used in elections, has decertified the Advanced Voting Solutions WINVote and for many very good reasons. Amongst the many security flaws in this product are:
Worse still, this machine has been used in actual elections and its lack of any logging or record-keeping means that we'll never know if its weaknesses were used to manipulate the outcome of an election. As a proof of concept, security researchers successfully demonstrated accessing the machine and manipulating the recorded vote counts.
(Score: 3, Funny) by stormwyrm on Friday April 17 2015, @04:37AM
No the saying that is most apropos to this situation is: "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.