Fw: Vitamin Consumers World Wide Take Note: DIEBOLD VOTE MACHINES - 2 DIGIT CODE MANIPULATION SECURITY HOLE

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Vitamin Consumers World Wide Take Note: DIEBOLD VOTE MACHINES - 2

DIGIT CODE MANIPULATION SECURITY HOLE

 

 

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> IAHF List: The price of freedom, is eternal vigilance. [see the info below

my comments] No matter what country you live in you must be mindful of the

fact that elections are being electronically hijacked world wide via the

means discussed below as the New World Disorder attempts to go into

hyperdrive as our would be rulers seek to force us into a global

totalitarian state.

>

> I just sent the information below about the gaping security holes in the

Diebold Voting Machines to my Senators, my Congressman, and my county

officials demanding ANSWERS.

>

> I urge you to do the same all over Amerika and in your country if you live

outside this den of iniquity for the vipers who are trying to destroy my

country, are also trying to destroy yours. " Novus Ordo Seclorum " is the

motto of these swine, they tell us that right on the US one dollar bill.

Another motto is " Ordo Ab Chao " Order out of chaos....

>

> The timetable to force us into the FTAA (Free Trade Area of the Americas)

is January 2005, according to a speech given by Bush before the Organization

of American States. They'll have lobbyists crawling all over Capital Hill

like ants just like they did when they rammed NAFTA and GATT through on us.

>

> Want to protect DSHEA, and our right to self determination? Want to

protect your access to dietary supplements in the face of this eugenics

agenda to cull our numbers?

>

> Join me in raising bloody HELL about this nonsense: Who the hell do these

people think they are messing with anyway? See the info below and also see

http://www.stoptheftaa.org Don't vote for anyone who favors so called " free

trade " , because they want to destroy your country and make you a literal

SLAVE: Don't just get MAD- Get EVEN- Take ACTION!!!

>

> http://www.blackboxvoting.org/?q=node/view/78

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> Consumer Report Part 1: Look at this -- the Diebold GEMS central tabulator

contains a stunning security hole

> Submitted by Bev Harris on Thu, 08/26/2004 - 11:43. Investigations

> Issue: Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central tabulator --

1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two million votes

at a time.

> By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is

created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the

correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus

vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a

single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully

mitigate the risks.

>

> This program is not " stupidity " or sloppiness. It was designed and tested

over a series of a dozen version adjustments.

>

> Public officials: If you are in a county that uses GEMS 1.18.18, GEMS

1.18.19, or GEMS 1.18.23, your secretary or state may not have told you

about this. You're the one who'll be blamed if your election is tampered

with. Find out for yourself if you have this problem: Black Box Voting will

be happy to walk you through a diagnostic procedure over the phone. E-mail

Bev Harris or Andy Stephenson to set up a time to do this.

>

> Members of congress and Washington correspondents: Harris and Stephenson

will be in Washington D.C. on Sept. 22 to demonstrate this problem for you.

>

> Whether you vote absentee, on touch-screens, or on paper ballot (fill in

the bubble) optical scan machines, all votes are ultimately brought to the

" mother ship, " the central tabulator at the county which adds them all up

and creates the results report.

>

> These systems are used in over 30 states and each counts up to two million

votes at once.

>

> (Click " read more " for the rest of this section)

>

> The central tabulator is far more vulnerable than the touch screen

terminals. Think about it: If you were going to tamper with an election,

would you rather tamper with 4,500 individual voting machines, or with just

one machine, the central tabulator which receives votes from all the

machines? Of course, the central tabulator is the most desirable target.

>

> Findings: The GEMS central tabulator program is incorrectly designed and

highly vulnerable to fraud. Election results can be changed in a matter of

seconds. Part of the program we examined appears to be designed with

election tampering in mind. We have also learned that election officials

maintain inadequate controls over access to the central tabulator. We need

to beef up procedures to mitigate risks.

>

> Much of this information, originally published on July 8, 2003, has since

been corroborated by formal studies (RABA) and by Diebold's own internal

memos written by its programmers.

>

> Not a single location has yet implemented the security measures needed to

mitigate the risk. Yet, it is not too late. We need to tackle this one,

folks, roll up our sleeves, and implement corrective measures.

>

> In Nov. 2003, Black Box Voting founder Bev Harris, and director Jim March,

filed a Qui Tam lawsuit in California citing fraudulent claims by Diebold,

seeking restitution for the taxpayer. Diebold claimed its voting system was

secure. It is, in fact, highly vulnerable to and appears to be designed for

fraud.

>

> The California Attorney General was made aware of this problem nearly a

year ago. Harris and Black Box Voting Associate Director Andy Stephenson

visited the Washington Attorney General's office in Feb. 2004 to inform them

of the problem. Yet, nothing has been done to inform election officials who

are using the system, nor have appropriate security safeguards been

implemented. In fact, Gov. Arnold Swarzenegger recently froze the funds,

allocated by Secretary of State Kevin Shelley, which would have paid for

increased scrutiny of the voting system in California.

>

> On April 21, 2004, Harris appeared before the California Voting Systems

Panel, and presented the smoking gun document showing that Diebold had not

corrected the GEMS flaws, even though it had updated and upgraded the GEMS

program.

>

> On Aug. 8, 2004, Harris demonstrated to Howard Dean how easy it is to

change votes in GEMS, on CNBC TV.

>

> On Aug. 11, 2004, Jim March formally requested that the Calfornia Voting

Systems Panel watch the demonstration of the double set of books in GEMS.

They were already convened, and the time for Harris was already allotted.

Though the demonstration takes only 3 minutes, the panel refused to allow it

and would not look. They did, however, meet privately with Diebold

afterwards, without informing the public or issuing any report of what

transpired.

>

> On Aug. 18, 2004, Harris and Stephenson, together with computer security

expert Dr. Hugh Thompson, and former King County Elections Supervisor Julie

Anne Kempf, met with members of the California Voting Systems Panel and the

California Secretary of State's office to demonstrate the double set of

books.

>

> The Secretary of State's office halted the meeting, called in the general

counsel for their office, and a defense attorney from the California

Attorney General's office. They refused to allow Black Box Voting to

videotape its own demonstration. They prohibited any audiotape and specified

that no notes of the meeting could be requested in public records requests.

>

> The undersecretary of state, Mark Kyle, left the meeting early, and one

voting panel member, John Mott Smith, appeared to sleep through the

presentation.

>

> On Aug. 23, 2004, CBC TV came to California and filmed the demonstration.

>

> On Aug 30 and 31, Harris and Stephenson will be in New York City to

demonstrate the double set of books for any public official and any TV crews

who wish to see it.

>

> On Sept. 1, another event is planned in New York City, and on Sept. 21,

Harris and Stephenson intend to demonstrate the problem for members and

congress and the press in Washington D.C.

>

> Diebold has known of the problem, or should have known, because it did a

cease and desist on the web site when Harris originally reported the problem

in 2003. On Aug. 11, 2004, Harris also offered to show the problem to Marvin

Singleton, Diebold's damage control expert, and to other Diebold execs. They

refused to look.

>

> Why don't people want to look? Suppose you are formally informed that the

gas tank tends to explode on the car you are telling people to use. If you

KNOW about it, but do nothing, you are liable.

>

> LET US HOLD DIEBOLD, AND OUR PUBLIC OFFICIALS, ACCOUNTABLE.

>

> 1) Let there be no one who can say " I didn't know. "

>

> 2) Let there be no election jurisdiction using GEMS that fails to

implement all of the proper corrective procedures, this fall, to mitigate

risk.

>

> Click here to donate

>

> (Go on to Part 2 for a description of the problem)

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