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A team of computer scientists tasked with examining the source code of voting machines used in California (and elsewhere across the country) finally released their much-anticipated report on Thursday and it contains significant information that could lead the secretary of state to decertify the machines on Friday (the last day by which Secretary of State Debra Bowen can make decisions that affect voting machines that will be used in 2008).
The team, led by UC Berkeley computer scientist David Wagner, conducted the most thorough security examination of e-voting machines that has been done to date and examined both touch-screen and optical-scan systems (a separate Red Team conducted hacking tests on the machines and released their report last week).
The researchers found that although some vulnerabilities could be mitigated by making changes to election procedures, poll workers and election officials likely wouldn’t be able to implement them adequately
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