Install PAC-MAN on Sequoia voting machine w/o breaking tamper-evident seals

It is one of the curious facts of modern culture that the people who love technology the most also seem to be the most opposed to electronic voting.<p>I think it's because the people who most understand how computers work also understand that no data can be considered trustworthy if somebody else has been in possession of the hardware. Yet governments continue to trust the impossible promises of the people who make voting machines that their machines are secure, despite a continuous stream of demonstrations to the contrary, both intentional and accidental.

"We received the machine with the original tamper-evident seals intact. The software can be replaced without breaking any of these seals, simply by removing screws and opening the case."<p>Ouch.<p>Incompetence doesn't even begin to describe it. Or is this by design?

I suspect the only way to get the public's attention on voting machine security would be for a group (Anonymous?) to hack a major election in favor of a joke write-in candidate (Mickey Mouse, "None of the Above", Bill Murray).

The Open Voting Consortium is working on an open-source solution that uses everyday PCs and printers instead of these ridiculously expensive voting machines. Their solution[1] is actually paper-based, allowing for increased accountability and transparency. The source is available here[2] although the project hasn't seen activity in quite some time, so I am not sure of the status of the code base.<p>[1]: <a href="http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/our_solution" rel="nofollow">http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/our_solution</a> [2]: <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/evm2003/" rel="nofollow">http://sourceforge.net/projects/evm2003/</a>

Now make it so you have to eat the ghost labeled as the candidate you want to vote for, and it records the vote.<p>I might actually go to the polls.

Support verified voting if you are concerned about electronic voting: <a href="http://verifiedvoting.org/" rel="nofollow">http://verifiedvoting.org/</a>

I can't imagine the horror of battling lobby groups and corporate interests to fix this on a federal scale.

well, it works perfectly if what you want is steal an election...