GA Lawsuit: Voting Machines Hackable

A lawsuit filed in Atlanta claims Georgia's electronic voting machines are obsolete and vulnerable to computer hackers.
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7/14/2006 8:01:07 AM

Georgia's controversial, electronic, touch-screen voting machines, less than four years old, are under fire as never before.

A lawsuit filed Thursday in Atlanta against the Governor, Secretary of State, and the State Elections Board claims the machines are obsolete and vulnerable to computer hackers bent on re-programming the units and fixing elections.

"These machines maybe can't be trusted," said Walker Chandler, the attorney for VoterGA.org, a coalition of voter rights groups representing the plaintiffs.

One of the eight plaintiffs, Ricardo Davis said, he became convinced the machines are vulnerable even to amateur hack attacks.

"Working as a poll worker, I basically figured out how I could steal an election in 10 minutes, with one accomplice," Davis told reporters at a news conference in Atlanta on Thursday.