Plunderbund

Ruh Roh! OK, this appears to be pretty serious:

() CHICAGO, May 11 — With primary election dates fast approaching in many states, officials in Pennsylvania and California issued urgent directives in recent days about a potential security risk in their Diebold Election Systems touch-screen voting machines, while other states with similar equipment hurried to assess the seriousness of the problem.

“It’s the most severe security flaw ever discovered in a voting system,” said Michael I. Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who is an examiner of electronic voting systems for Pennsylvania, where the primary is to take place on Tuesday.

I’ve not commented on my personal experience with machines - all in all a positive one but I still have a few chain of custody questions - but I will try to do so soon.

When computer experts don’t want to talk much for fear of tipping the hand to hackers or corrupt election workers AND when Aviel Rubin “almost has a heart attack”, well then Houston…we have a problem!