California white hat hackers: 3, Diebold and friends: 0
29th July 2007
Engadget. And wonder what ever happened to those nice paper ballots that were so easy to check and so difficult to hack.
The problem with paper ballots, of course, is that they take a lot of work to tally, and you can’t have the result by the time the 11 0’clock news comes on. God forbid that accurate elections should take priority over making bureaucrats’ and journlists’ jobs easier.
Oh, and with paper ballots the bureaucrats don’t have a lot of money to splash around. That’s key too.