Devastating voting machine hack; Leon County dumps Diebold

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[GranniesAgainstGeorge] Devastating voting machine hack; Leon

County dumps Diebold

 

 

 

 

BREAKING : Due to contractual non-performance and security design

issues, Leon County (Florida) supervisor of elections Ion Sancho told

Black Box Voting that he will never again use Diebold in an election.

He has requested funds to replace the Diebold system from the county.

He will issue a formal announcement to this effect shortly. This comes

on the heels of the resignation of Diebold CEO WallyO'Dell, and the

announcement that a stockholder's class action suit has been filed

against Diebold byScott & Scott.

 

 

 

 

Black Box Voting: http://www.blackboxvoting.org

Leon County Election Supervisor Ion Sancho:

http://www.leonfl.org/elect/MeetTheSupervisor.htm

 

 

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 Tusday Dec. 13 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 Thompson 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, just as Hursti had planned, 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 " mother

ship " that pulls in all votes from voting machines. The results in the

central tabulator read:

 

Yes:7

No:1

 

This exploit, accomplished without being given any password and with

the same level of access given thousands of poll workers across the

USA, showed that the votes themselves were changed in a one-step

process. This hack would not be detected in any normal canvassing

procedure, and it required only a single a credit-card sized memory card.

 

On Oct. 17, 2005 Diebold Elections Systems Research and Development

chief Pat Green specifically told the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) board of

elections that votes cannot be changed using only a memory card. Video

of Pat Green, Cuyahoga County

 

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, a stockholder suit was filed today against Diebold by

the law offices of Scott and Scott:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104 & STORY=/www/story/12-13-200\

5/0004233556 & EDATE=

 

 

Diebold CEO resigns:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=175001748

 

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