What to do with the voting machines

Tiddlypeeps · 11-01-2012 04:19PM

Benny_Cake wrote: »

Apparently the processor they use is a Motorola 68000,which is the same processor used on the first generation Amiga. So you'd be limited in what you could do with them.

This doesn't explain why they can't just put new software on them that isn't retarded. The 68k processor is well capable of looking after the simple task of receiving and storing votes.

LumpyGravy · 11-01-2012 04:31PM

In case they change their minds:

http://www.electronicvoting.ie/english/index.html

darragh o meara · 11-01-2012 05:37PM

Mad Mike wrote: »

I don't accept this notion that they have no value. I would have thought that the allegations that this type of voting can be fiddled would make these machines very attractive to lot of governments.

Would have been handy for the lisbon vote. They would have saved a fortune that they spent re-running the vote

dxhound2005 · 11-01-2012 06:03PM

darragh o meara wrote: »

Would have been handy for the lisbon vote. They would have saved a fortune that they spent re-running the vote

They should have kept them for all elections. Think of the amount of money which would be saved from not having to pay thousands of people to count the votes.

Orando Broom · 11-01-2012 06:06PM

XiledSniper wrote: »

That's some Blake's 7 ass shít right there!

flutered · 11-01-2012 06:11PM

Mad Mike wrote: »

I don't accept this notion that they have no value. I would have thought that the allegations that this type of voting can be fiddled would make these machines very attractive to lot of governments.

which is the reason that they were bought in the first place.

alphabeat · 12-01-2012 02:51PM

Mad Mike wrote: »

I don't accept this notion that they have no value. I would have thought that the allegations that this type of voting can be fiddled would make these machines very attractive to lot of governments.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDbHwz6JGzo

Jim_Kiy · 12-01-2012 11:12PM

What about selling them to North Korea?

Littlehorny · 12-01-2012 11:19PM

They should be loaded into lorries and dumped on the driveway in front of Noel Dempseys house and he should be told "right these fuc*king things have cost US enough money, so they are YOUR problem now!".

Capt'n Midnight · 13-01-2012 12:24AM

if you change the program they can just about play chess (badly)
http://wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/images/9/91/Es3b-en.pdf

As we took it apart, we confirmed that this was
indeed a system built around a 68000 processor that came with 256kBytes of EPROM, 8 kBytes of
EEPROM, 16 kBytes of RAM, two 6850-based serial ports, a printer port, two screens (4 lines of
40 characters on the voter display, 2 lines of 40 characters on the small election official console)
attached to a cable.

They are dumber than any mobile phone that could fit in your pocket.

Access was not on the machines, it was on a separate PC and used to collate the results from the machines. Metasploit anyone ?
http://www.mcdougall.org.uk/VM/ISSUE23/I23P4.pdf

3 The chosen system: software
The Voting Machine software, written in ANSI C,
runs on the PRU as well as the Voting Machine.
The “Integrated Election Software” (IES) runs
on a “hardened” PC running Microsoft Windows
2000. Written in Delphi, Borland’s Object Pascal,
IES consists of modules for STV counting, election
management, and management of the PRU. In addition,
IES uses several third-party tools and libraries,
including the Microsoft Access database system.
The Voting Machine software comprises some
25,000 lines of code, while IES approaches 100,000
lines, of which some 40,000 lines are devoted to the
counting module ([1] Part 3.2).

DEFTLEFTHAND · 13-01-2012 01:16AM

Why does it cost so much to store them? I have a few sheds available to me which are lying idle at the moment. They can send them down to me and I'll store them for free. That will be my patriotic duty done then, all I'd ask for in return would be a state funeral and my face printed on the new Punt bank notes.

What to do with the voting machines

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