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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry
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To: sea_biscuit who wrote (56175)11/3/2004 1:16:30 PM
From: Cynic 2005Read Replies (1) of 81568
 
If you insert this (Pseudo) code into the software, delivering the vote to anybody is a snap.

1. generate a random number between 1 and 10.
2. If that # is 2 or less, register the vote for my candidate.
3. Else register the real vote. </i?

In a race that is as close as this (50-50), tinkering with a 20% sample will give my candidate a 10% advantage (i.e. my candidate will win by 60-40 margin). At this scale the fraud is easy to detect.

For a 51-49 - a 1% advantage, all I need is to generate a uniform random number and multiply it with just 1. It is almost undetectable. If the test machines are different from production machines, even 50% tinkering is impossible to detect.

Given Bush's record, the result in Ohio is a major suspect.
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