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Voting machines open new avenues for massive vote

fraud

 

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Looking for the Diebold memos?

Here are some of the sites where they're currently

mirrored.

 

 

From the archives, July 16, 2004:

A bigger threat to November's election than any

terrorists' attackby Madeline Zane, Unknown News

 

 

From the archives, May 19, 2004:

Feds threaten subpenna against activist for honest

vote counts

 

 

From the archives, May 18, 2004:

The people's paper trail

by Carlos Pecciotto Jr., Unknown News

 

 

From the archives, May 6, 2004:

Officials warn against receipts for electronic ballots

# with comments by Phil

 

 

From the archives, April 30, 2004:

California Secretary Of State bans electronic voting

 

# We watched California Secretary of State Kevin

Shelley up close and personal, when he was a local San

Francisco politician. He had some courage and

integrity then, by political standards, so I'd say

there's a reasonable chance -- say, 50/50 -- that

Shelley won't reverse his decision by November.

=H & HH=

 

 

From the archives, April 28, 2004:

Two companies & two brothers will count 80% of U.S.

ballots

 

 

From the archives, April 23, 2004:

Diebold may face criminal charges

 

Excerpt: After harshly chastising Diebold

Election Systems for what it considered deceptive

business practices, a California voting systems panel

voted unanimously Thursday to recommend that the

secretary of state decertify an electronic

touch-screen voting machine manufactured by the

company, making it likely that four California

counties that recently purchased the machines will

have to find other voting solutions for the November

presidential election.

 

The panel also voted to send the findings of its

recent Diebold investigation to the state's attorney

general for possible criminal and civil charges

against the firm for violating state election laws.

 

# Is it possible they'll be facing charges in

California while their machines are being used all

over the U.S.? =John C.=

 

# I've never seen any legislature show that lind

of testicles. Sounds more like classic political

" tough talk, " almost guaranteed to add up to nothing.

=H & HH=

 

 

From the archives, April 22, 2004:

Diebold apologizes for disenfranchising California

voters

 

 

From the archives, March 14, 2004:

Designer of verified vote system dies in unlucky

accident

 

Excerpt: As family members and business partners

gathered at the TruVote office yesterday morning to

mourn Athan Gibbs' death, they vowed that his dream

would not die with him.

 

 

From the archives, March 4, 2004 —

A deafening silence as democracy expires

 

 

From the archives, Feb. 24, 2004:

Diebold, electronic voting and the vast right-wing

conspiracy

 

Excerpt: Athan Gibbs wonders, “Why would you buy

a voting machine from a company like Diebold which

provides a paper trail for every single machine it

makes except its voting machines? And then, when you

ask it to verify its numbers, it hides behind ‘trade

secrets.’”

 

 

From the archives, Feb. 15, 2004 —

Would you like a receipt with that election?

Technologists advocate a paper trail for electronic

voting machines

 

Hey kids -- let's all call our respective city

halls and ask if they know about paper receipts.

=John C.=

 

 

From the archives, Feb. 6, 2004 —

Michigan plans internet vote despite hacking risks

 

 

From the archives, Feb. 6, 2004 —

Company lied about voting machine's reliability

 

 

From the archives, Jan. 30, 2004 —

This week in vote fraud

 

 

From the archives, Jan. 20, 2004 —

Company with worst e-voting security record produces

machines with wireless capability

 

Excerpt: ...simply having the PCMCIA slot [place

to install wireless equipment] means a bogus election

official or voter could secretly slip a wireless card

into the machine. If this happened and a wireless link

was made, it would be very difficult to monitor who

was trying to hack the terminal.

 

 

From the archives, Jan. 17, 2004 —

This week in U.S. election fraud

 

 

From the archives, Dec. 17 —

Yeah, let's put Diebold in charge of elections

 

. Diebold used uncertified, untested software to

count California votes

. Felons in five Diebold management positions

. More states and politicians demand paper trail

 

From the archives, Dec. 14, 2003 —

Vote system provides receipt, verification that your

vote was counted

 

 

From the archives, Dec. 2 —

Diebold backs off legal intimidation

 

Excerpt: Diebold Election Systems is withdrawing

legal threats against voting activists and Internet

service providers for publishing copies of internal

staff e-mails that the company says were stolen from

its servers.

 

The documents pointed to security flaws with

Diebold's computerized voting machines and suggested

the company knew about those flaws long before it sold

machines to several states, including California,

Maryland and Georgia.

 

From the archives, Nov. 10 —

More election machine problems

 

 

From the archives, Nov. 6 —

Electronic voting machines cause problems nationwide

 

 

From the archives, Nov. 4 —

Diebold sued over cease-and-desist tactics

 

 

From the archives, Nov. 3 —

New York Times briefly awakens from long nap, notes

controversy, goes back to sleep

 

 

From the archives, Nov. 3 —

When votes don't count

by Madeline Zane, Unknown News

 

 

From the archives, Oct. 24 —

Diebold memos disclose Florida 2000 e-voting fraud

 

Background information —

Election 2000: Our final tally

 

From the archives, Oct. 22 —

Electronic Frontier Foundation to Diebold: Bite me

 

 

From the archives, Oct. 14 —

The hand that counts the ballots ...

 

 

From the archives, Sept. 24 —

Diebold feels the heat, sends out attack lawyers

 

 

From the archives, Sept. 23 —

Italian Diebold memo website, BlackBoxVoting.org shut

down

Company claims hyperlinks are 'illegally' linked to

leaked memos

 

 

From the archives, Sept. 19 —

Democracy's vanishing act

by Chris Floyd, The Moscow [Russia] Times

 

The American vote-count is controlled by three

major corporate players — Diebold, ES & S, and Sequoia —

with a fourth, Science Applications International

Corporation, coming on strong. These companies — all

of them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid —

have been given billions of dollars by the Bush Regime

to complete a sweeping computerization of voting

machines nationwide by the 2004 election. These

glitch-riddled systems — many using " touch-screen "

technology that leaves no paper trail at all — are

almost laughably open to manipulation, according to

corporate whistleblowers and computer scientists at

Stanford, Johns Hopkins and other universities.

 

... Who's behind these private companies? It's

hard to tell: The corporate lines — even the

bloodlines — of these " competitors " are so intricately

mixed. For example, at Diebold — whose corporate

chief, Wally O'Dell, a top Bush fundraiser, has

publicly committed himself to " delivering " his home

state's votes to Bush next year — the election

division is run by Bob Urosevich. Bob's brother,

is a top executive at " rival " ES & S. The brothers were

originally staked in the vote-count business by Howard

Ahmanson, a member of the Council for National Policy,

a right-wing " steering group " stacked with Bushist

faithful. ...

 

From the archives, Sept. 12 —

Diebold confirms U.S. vote count vulnerabilities

 

 

From the archives, Sept. 11 —

Strange case of an election tally that appears to have

popped up on the Internet hours before polls closed

 

 

From the archives, Aug. 28 —

President of voting machine company says

he's " committed " to Bush re-election

 

The head of a company vying to sell voting

machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent

fund-raising letter that he is " committed to helping

Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next

year. "

 

The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief

executive of Diebold Inc. — who has become active in

the re-election effort of President Bush — prompted

Democrats this week to question the propriety of

allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the

2004 presidential election.

 

O'Dell attended a strategy pow-wow with wealthy

Bush benefactors — known as Rangers and Pioneers — at

the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch earlier this

month. The next week, he penned invitations to a

$1,000-a-plate fund-raiser to benefit the Ohio

Republican Party's federal campaign fund - partially

benefiting Bush - at his mansion in the Columbus

suburb of Upper Arlington.

 

The letter went out the day before Ohio Secretary

of State Ken Blackwell, also a Republican, was set to

qualify Diebold as one of three firms eligible to sell

upgraded electronic voting machines to Ohio counties

in time for the 2004 election. ...

 

From the archives, Aug. 8 —

How George W. Bush won the 2004 presidential election

by Sandeep S. Atwal, Infernal Press

 

Despite assurances from the corporations that own

these machines, the reliability of electronic voting

is under intense criticism. One of the most

comprehensive examinations of electronic voting fraud

came from brothers James and Kenneth Collier. In their

1992 book Votescam: The Stealing of America, the

brothers detailed the long history of voting fraud

over the past twenty-five years with a special focus

on voting machines. American politicians and large

media outlets have ignored their book, and their

charges remain unanswered.

 

From the archives, Aug. 7 —

New security woes for computer-voting firm

 

Following an embarrassing leak of its proprietary

software over a file transfer protocol site last

January, the inner workings of Diebold Election

Systems have again been laid bare.

 

A hacker has come forward with evidence that he

broke the security of a private Web server operated by

the embattled e-vote vendor, and made off last spring

with Diebold's internal discussion-list archives, a

software bug database and more software.

 

From the archives, Aug. 5 —

Lawsuit to block voting machines gains momentum

 

According to Susan Marie Weber, a Palm Desert,

California woman who is suing the state for

sanctioning voting machines she alleges are open to

manipulation, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in

San Francisco indicated this week that it plans to

hear oral arguments in her case.

 

From the archives, Aug. 1 —

Experimental web program opens voting to overseas

military

 

From the archives, July 24 —

Computerized voting open to easy fraud, says study

 

From the archives, July 24 —

Original study: Analysis of an electronic voting

system

PDF — REQUIRES ADOBE ACROBAT READER™

 

From the archives, July 8 —

The 'walk right in, sit right down, and compose your

own tally' vote counting system

by Bev Harris, Scoop

 

" When I found that Diebold Election Systems had

been storing 40,000 of its files on an open web site,

an obscure site, never revealed to public interest

groups, but generally known among election industry

insiders, and available to any hacker with a laptop, I

looked at the files. Having a so-called

security-conscious voting machine manufacturer store

sensitive files on an unprotected public web site,

allowing anonymous access, was bad enough, but when I

saw what was in the files my hair turned gray. Really.

It did.

 

" The contents of these files amounted to a virtual

handbook for vote-tampering: They contained diagrams

of remote communications setups, passwords, encryption

keys, source code, user manuals, testing protocols,

and simulators, as well as files loaded with votes and

voting machine software. "

 

 

 

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