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Originally Posted by Cicero

I just watched a documentary that included how to hack a memory card for electronic voting. It seemed just too easy.

That is called a kludge. Only sufficient memory card is one that can only increment a counter, cannot be written to, and can be read at any time. When voting is done, this card then goes into the storage facility of history where noone can change those numbers - can only increment a counter.

Obviously, if the number of voters is less than the numbers in those counters, then fraud is detected.

If you can write to the existing card - change any number - then the card has no security. Diebold voting machines will always be flawed if using standard memory cards. No kludge will solve that problem.