Two 54-year old women with $12 worth of tools in four minutes penetrated seals, replaced the memory card, and resealed it undetectably.

Feel secure in your vote? Me neither.

The Brad Blog:

A couple of 54-year old women from Black Box Voting bought $12 worth of tools and in four minutes penetrated the memory card seals, removed, replaced the memory card, and sealed it all up again without leaving a trace. This experiment shows that the seals do nothing whatever to protect against access by insiders after testing, and the seals also are worthless in jurisdictions like Washington, Florida, California, and many other locations where voting machines are sent home with poll workers for days before the election.

The Busby-Bilbray contest in San Diego now has proof that the optical scan machines sent home with poll workers subjected the tamper-friendly memory cards to an non-recoverable lapse in chain of custody. The recipe for tampering [PDF] has been on the Internet for over a year:

The photos below blow apart claims by elections officials that voting machine "sleepovers" — sending voting machines home with poll workers for days or weeks prior to elections — are secure because of seals over the memory card.

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