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Subject:    [DMCA_Discuss] DRM vs Voting Security
From:       Jei <jei () cc ! hut ! fi>
Date:       2005-12-14 1:52:42
Message-ID: Pine.GSO.4.61.0512140348520.1357 () vipunen ! hut ! fi
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I am amazed at how US companies can pull of DRM, yet still not eliminate
voting fraud.

http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Diebold_insider__alleges_company_plagued_1206.html

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Shortly before the election, ten days to two weeks, we were told that the 
date in the machine was malfunctioning, the source recalled. So we were 
told 'Apply this patch in a big rush. Later, the Diebold insider learned 
that the patches were never certified by the state of Georgia, as required 
by law.

Also, the clock inside the system was not fixed, said the insider. Its 
legendary how strange the outcome was; they ended up having the first 
Republican governor in who knows when and also strange outcomes in other 
races. I can say that the counties I worked in were heavily Democratic and 
elected a Republican.

In Georgias 2002 Senate race, for example, nearly 60 percent of the states 
electorate by county switched party allegiances between the primaries and 
the general election.

The insiders account corroborates a similar story told by Diebold 
contractor Rob Behler in an interview with Bev Harris of Black Box Voting.

Harris revealed that a program patch titled rob-georgia.zip was left on an 
unsecured server and downloaded over the Internet by Diebold technicians 
before loading the unauthorized software onto Georgia voting machines. 
They didnt even TEST the fixes before they told us to install them, Behler 
stated, adding that machines still malfunctioned after patches were 
installed.

California decertified Diebold TSX touch screen machines after state 
officials learned that the vendor had broken state election law.

In California, they got in trouble and tried to doubletalk. They used a 
patch that was not certified, the Diebold insider said. Theyve done this 
many times. They just got caught in Georgia and California.

The whistleblower is also skeptical of results from the November 2005 Ohio 
election, in which 88 percent of voters used touch screens and the outcome 
on some propositions changed as much as 40 percent from pre-election exit 
polls.

Amazing, the Diebold insider said.

Diebold is headquartered in Ohio. Its chairman Wally ODell, a key 
fundraiser for President Bush, once promised in an invitation to a 
Republican fundraising dinner to deliver Ohios electoral votes for Bush. 
The staffer said the company has a deep conservative culture.

My feeling having been really deep inside the company is that initially 
Diebold, being a very conservative and Republican company, felt that if 
they controlled an election company, they could have great influence over 
the outcome, the source, a registered independent, said.

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http://www.geek.com/news/geeknews/2003Oct/gee20031009022127.htm

Fraud feared in electronic voting machines
Security holes abound

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http://www.bbvforums.org/cgi-bin/forums/board-auth.cgi?file=/1954/15595.html

Posted on Tuesday, December 13, 2005 - 03:42 pm:
Breaking:

Due to security design issues and contractual non-performance, Leon County 
(Florida) supervisor of elections Ion Sancho told Black Box Voting that he 
will never use Diebold in an election again. He has requested funds to 
replace the Diebold system from the county. He will issue a formal 
announcement to this effect shortly.

Finnish security expert Harri Hursti proved that Diebold lied to 
Secretaries of State across the nation when Diebold claimed votes could 
not be changed on the memory card.

A test election was run in Leon County today with a total of eight ballots 
- six ballots voted "no" on a ballot question as to whether Diebold voting 
machines can be hacked or not. Two ballots, cast by Dr. Herbert Thomson 
and by Harri Hursti voted "yes" indicating a belief that the Diebold 
machines could be hacked.

At the beginning of the test election the memory card programmed by Harri 
Hursti was inserted into an Optical Scan Diebold voting machine. A "zero 
report" was run indicating zero votes on the memory card. In fact, 
however, Hursti had pre-loaded the memory card with plus and minus votes.

The eight ballots were run through the optical scan machine. The standard 
Diebold-supplied "ender card" was run through as is normal procedure 
ending the election. A results tape was run from the voting machine.

Correct results should have been:

Yes:2 No:6

However the results tape read:

Yes:7 No:1

The results were then uploaded from the optical scan voting machine into 
the GEMS central tabulator. The central tabulator is the "mothership" that 
pulls in all votes from voting machines. The results in the central 
tabulator read:

Yes:7 No:1

This proves that the votes themselves were changed in a one-step process 
that would not be detected in any normal canvassing procedure - using only 
a credit-card sized memory card.

Diebold Elections Systems head of research and development Pat Green 
specifically told the Cuyahoga County board of elections that votes could 
not be changed on the memory card.

According to Public Records responses obtained by Black Box Voting in 
response to our requests shows that Diebold promulgated this 
misrepresentation to as many as 800 state and local elections officials.

In other news, according to Bradblog a stockholder suit was filed today 
against Diebold by the law offices of Scott and Scott:

http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002153.htm

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