Reply #211: HOW was it done? [View All]

is usually the first thing that needs absolute proof.
here's some bits and pieces i've collected. don't know if they will help anyone much.


Software used by an electronic voting system manufactured by Sequoia Voting Systems has been left unprotected on a publicly available server, raising concerns about the possibility of vote tampering in future elections.
http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,61014,00.html

Mon, 27 Oct 2003 08:38:12 -0500 My personal view is that every line of computer code used in any capacity to count votes should be made public. Any company that intends to claim their software as proprietary or a trade secret should be prohibited from bidding on contracts. Once the system is complete, it should be put up and hackers worldwide should be invited to break it. As each flaw is exposed, it should be corrected and the process
begun again. The toughest issue I see, other than the fact that the Republicans have been and currently are actively cheating, is privacy versus
verification. Also, two FBI agents came by my house last week asking for names of radicals and organizations. My email is being monitored. Anyone on this board should assume the same. http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/

Diebold Internal Support Memos
A remarkable exchange concerning Diebold's voting machines in Volusia County, Florida. On January 17, 2001, Lana Hines, a county elections official sends out an inquiry as to how Al Gore ended up with a vote-count of -16,022. That's NEGATIVE 16,022—which just happens also to have been the total number of votes cast for various independent and third-party candidates who also ran. (It was the largest number of such votes cast in Volusia County's history.) "Tab"—that is, Talbot Iredale, Vice President of Research & Development at Global/Diebold.

Take a look at the other big player in making our 'no paper trail' voting machines. They are called ES&S. The president of that company was Senator
(R) Chuck Hagel's campaign manager. They also have senior staff making lots of donations to the CNP stealth candidates like Mike Fair from Greenville SC. Full article with links at: http://www.bartcop.com/111402faun.htm

You might want to learn more about these Christian Reconstructionists who control the the two voting machine companies to whom we are entrusting our ballot casting and counting: http://www.qrd.org/qrd/www/rrr/recon.html
Many of Diebold's executives gave money to the North Carolina Senatorial candidate Lauch Faircloth. Lauch Faircloth has alwasy been openly opposed to allowing all Americans to vote. He is a leader of CNP, the Christian reconstructionists who believe only Christians should be allowed to vote. How can a voting machine company have so many
executives line up behind a candidate who is opposed to counting all the votes?
Full article with a complete list of their donations is at: http://www.Bartcop.com/diebold.htm


...the error could only occur in one of four ways:
1.Corrupt memory card. This is the most likely explaination for the problem but since I know nothing about the 'second' memory card I have no ability to confirm the probability of this.
2.Invalid read from good memory card. This is unlikely since the candidates<'> results for the race are not all read at the same time and the corruption was limited to a single race.There is a possibty that a section of the memory card was bad but since I do not know anything more about the 'second' memory card I cannot validate this.
3.Corruption of memory, whether on the host or Accu-Vote. Again this is unlikely due to the localization of the problem to a single race.
4.Invalid memory card (i.e. one that should not have been uploaded). There is always the possiblity that the 'second memory card' or 'second upload' came from an un-authorised source.

http://markcrispinmiller.blogspot.com/2003_09_21_markcrispinmiller_archive.html#106424989588414494
He said Diebold Election Systems of North Canton, Ohio, has already incorporated three new security features to correct problems that critics of the touch-screen machines say made them vulnerable to massive election fraud. Other "vulnerabilities" cited by the consultant, Science Application International Corp., will be corrected by security procedures to be implemented by state and local election boards. Thomas W. Swidarski, president of Diebold Election Systems, said the SAIC study "verifies that the Diebold voting station provides an unprecedented level of election security."

SAIC, the company tasked with investigating the security of the Diebold voting machine technology in the states of Maryland and Ohio. The revelation that Ronald J Knecht, Senior Vice President, SAIC, and a former defense intelligence chief, is connected to the proposed voting machine whitewash push seems certain to fuel public concerns about the number of conflicts on interest in the voting machine industry.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0308/S00173.htm
SAIC is also running the recently established Iraqi Media Network project, whose charge was to "was to put together a new information ministry, complete with television, radio and a newspaper, and the content that would make all three attractive to average Iraqis."
http://www.guerrillanews.com/sci-tech/doc2946.html