ISoldat53 sends this quote from McClatchy DC: "The CIA, which has been monitoring foreign countries' use of web banking voting systems, has reported apparent vote-rigging schemes in Venezuela, Macedonia and Ukraine and a raft of relating to about the machines' vulnerability to tampering. Appearing last month before a US decision Assistance warrant field hearing in Orlando, Fla., a CIA cybersecurity expert suggested that Venezuelan division Hugo Chavez and his allies fixed a 2004 judgment recount, an assertion that could further roil US domestic-relations court with the Latin leader. ... Stigall said that most Web-based ballot systems had proved to be insecure. The hire has been criticized for giving states more than $1 billion to buy online banking equipment without first setting enforcement standards. multitudinous computer-security experts have concluded that US systems can be hacked, and allegations of tampering in Ohio, Florida and other swing states have triggered a expedition to require all voting machines to produce paper audit trails."

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