NEW EVIDENCE Computer Hackers Could Change Election Results

Elections Official: Some Voting Machines Could Be Hacked

POSTED: 12:17 pm EST December 15, 2005
UPDATED: 7:44 pm EST December 15, 2005


Voting machines used in four Central Florida counties might be flawed.

There's new evidence that computer hackers could change election results without anyone knowing about it, WESH 2 News reported.

The supervisor of elections in Tallahassee tested voting machines several times over the last several months, and on Monday, his workers were able to hack into a voting machine and change the outcome. He said that same thing might have happened in Volusia County in 2000.

The big controversy revolves around a little black computer card that is smaller than a floppy disk and bigger than a flash drive. The card is inserted into voting machines that scan paper ballots. The card serves as the machine's electronic brain.


But when Ion Sancho, Leon County's Supervisor of Elections, tested the Diebold system and allowed experts to manipulate the card electronically, he could change the outcome of a mock election without leaving any kind of trail. In other words, someone could fix an election and no one would know.
http://www.wesh.com/news/5542983/detail.html

Seems slightly deceptive to point at "hackers"
Yeah I know, technically it's correct
But so is "republican political operative" :-)

Combine this with the SEVERAL published scientific papers written by Ph.d statistical scientists, that PROVE the '04 election numbers were a fraud, and you have a busy week ahead for Repukelickan shills, defenders and apologists.

ELECTIONS
New tests fuel doubts about vote machines (Miami Herald)

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/1341006...

Elections Official: Some Voting Machines Could Be Hacked (WESH Central Florida)

http://www.wesh.com/news/5542983/detail.html

Elections Supervisor: Some Diebold Voting Machines Can Be Hacked (WFTV Florida)

http://www.wftv.com/news/5541739/detail.html

County says electronic voting machines can be hacked (USA Today AP)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-12-15-opticalv...


ADD THEM IF YOU FIND THEM!

But they were told to not listen.

I'm concerned that the very source code is used to divert votes from one candidate to another. It really is as simple as:

If vote = Kerry
then vote = Bush

If the source code is not reviewable then the coders don't even need to try to hide what is going on. It's flagrant and it is unbelievable that it is tolerated.


Chris

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Woo hoo!

So with that in mind let's all get busy. We can join the D.U. activist group or create a group of our own. Check out the activist site called the Democracy Cell Project.

Media reform and election reform are two key parts of our mission statement.

http://www.democracycellproject.net

own. It also helps if we notify our reps.

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Someone remember that story ?

making the alternative either staying with people who won't defend transparent elections (Diebold defending public servants), and those who believe that transparent elections are a necessary precondition to the very notion of democratic elections.

Take a look at GuvWorld's work on this:


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x405179



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