Tallahassee Shocker: Diebold Machines Flawed!!

Tallahassee (FL) - Following an alarming report about the security of California's electronic voting machines, a new study shows Florida's systems still need some work too.

Yesterday, reports shined light on California's voting machines and a bevy of mechanical and electronic design flaws that could compromise election results.

The Florida study, performed by Florida State University's information technology lab, showed that there was potential for memory card fraud. An external memory card, which is the only method of keeping track of the votes, is easily accessible and could be swapped out with one that gives an artificial vote count boost to a losing candidate.

Though the report about Florida's voting machines don't show as many potential areas for tampering as California's report does, it's still a concern for the Secretary of State Kurt Browning. The Associated Press reports Browning has asked the manufacturer of the machines, Diebold, to fix these problems before next year's presidential primary election.

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More Vote Fraud in Palm Beach

Palm Beach County, Fla. -- home of the infamous "hanging chad" of the disputed 2000 presidential election -- is again the scene of election controversy.

The Republican Party of Palm Beach County has uncovered at least 60 cases of voters it believes voted twice -- once in New York and once in Florida -- in the Nov. 7, 2006, general election.

The GOP investigators believe vote fraud is far worse. Their analysis found as many as nearly 12,000 Florida voters who were registered to vote in the state of New York. link