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November 3, 2006
The Two Faces of Diebold
Rebecca Abrahams has a very good piece up over at Huffington Post about Maryland's Diebold issues:
In September, 2003 Linda Lamone, the Administrator of Maryland's State Board of Elections and President of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) hands over a critical study on the security of the Diebold Election Systems machines that count all of Maryland's votes.Between the time that the State of Maryland commissioned the highly respected Scientific Applications International Corporation (SAIC) to evaluate the effectiveness and security of their electronic voting machines and the time that the study is made public, critical pieces of information have been edited, omitted and, in some cases words added, to fundamentally alter the original meaning of the report's conclusions.
Enter the world of electronic voting machines, the "cure" to hanging and dimpled chad.
It is a seamy world of secrecy, proprietary software, partisan executives "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President", politicians asking programmers to design software to flip vote totals, and lots and lots of money.
And it is a world of completely inconsistent realities. Diebold and the other manufacturers insist that their machines are safe and secure yet every single cyber security expert and computer scientist has, for years, been screaming into an empty wilderness of media attention, that . . .
The machines can be hacked, by the implanting of malicious code, at the factory.
The machines can be hacked during transport from the factory.
The machines can be hacked while on "Sleepovers" before the election.
The machines can be hacked (in 1 minute with a .50cent mini bar key) during the election, and
These machines can be hacked, at the tabulator, after the election.
These machines have to go! There is just too much wiggle room for corruption and down right vote stealing! And the sad fact of the matter is that these machines were programmed to do this, which means that the sinister plot started a long time ago. The Republicans try to push this issue off on the Democrats, but the truth of the matter clearly shows that the Republicans were the big supporters and corporate America tends to give money to the party the favor in the long run.
Have you had enough yet? I sure have.
Read the entire article. It goes on and it gets worse.
Update: 1:14pm: BRAD BLOG has more on this story along with some other information.
Posted by Dianne at November 3, 2006 10:39 AM
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