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Hopkins Team Says Voting Software Has "Stunning Flaws"

Baltimore - A team of computer security researchers at Johns Hopkins University says there are serious problems with the software that runs some electronic voting machines.

The technical director of the university's Information Security Institute, Aviel Rubin, tells The New York Times that the software from Diebold Election Systems has "stunning flaws" that could allow poll workers to secretly alter electronic ballots.

The researchers also determined that "smart cards" used by voters to operate the machines can be cheaply reproduced -- allowing someone to vote more than once.

A Diebold spokesman says the company won't comment until it sees the full report. But he says that the researchers were apparently testing an older version of the software.

Diebold is based in Ohio and is best known as a maker of automated teller machines.

The state of Maryland recently agreed to a $56 million contract to use the voting system.

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