Hacked Vote
The Dilbert Blog has an interesting thought on the possibility that electronic voting machines can get hacked.
I believe those worries are totally misplaced. Now don’t get me wrong – there’s a 100% chance that the voting machines will get hacked and all future elections will be rigged. But that doesn’t mean we’ll get a worse government. It probably means that the choice of the next American president will be taken out of the hands of deep-pocket, autofellating, corporate shitbags and put it into the hands of some teenager in Finland. How is that not an improvement?
I’ve given that idea some thought, and I’ve realized that in an odd sort of way, I find it reassuring. Weird I know, but he’s right. It isn’t going to be some corporate schmuck that hacks it successfully, but some geek. We could do worse.
That’s not the problem though… If stealing votes is now so easy that teenagers in Finland can do it, then what’s stopping the deep pocketed corporate shmucks from hiring these teenagers to swing the vote their way?
All you need to do to hack a vote right now is a $50 card, a $5 mini-bar key and 2 minutes of alone time with the machine. Which is exactly what you get in the voting booth.
It’s so easy in fact, that the same machine could possibly be cracked 2-3 times during the course of the day without anyone ever noticing…
Heh.. Perhaps if everyone tries to hack the vote at the same time we will end up with some semi-random, moderately acceptable results though…
Comment by Luke — October 31, 2006 @ 12:46 pm
See here.
Comment by rightwingprof — October 31, 2006 @ 4:15 pm