List of major news stories covering Leon County vote equipment hack!

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

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/13410061.htm

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-opticalvoting_x.htm


ADD THEM IF YOU FIND THEM!

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/13418976.htm

Voting machines won't be retested, state officials say
State elections officials aren't ready to re-examine electronic voting machines -- even after a supervisor reported hackers could rig votes on some machines.BY MARC CAPUTOmcaputo@herald.comTALLAHASSEE - Top computer scientists and voting experts said Thursday that Florida must re-examine the way it tests voting machines and needs to verify claims by a Tallahassee elections official who said hackers could alter some computerized election results.
But acting Florida Secretary of State David Mann, whose office oversees the state elections department, said Thursday that he has such ''confidence'' in his agency's certification process that he has no intention of doing any double-checking right now.

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WTF?

and around the country I think he will. It'll just take a little time to get the hack test story out there to the people and then they will demand it. The days of the invisible ballots are numbered.........

I will try to take your lead on this one.
:patriot:

I have never had the experience where testing equipment violated a licensing agreement. And I deal with hardware/software contracts a bit. Is this just bullshit?


The voting system maker, Diebold Inc., sent a letter in response that questioned the test results and said the test was ''a very foolish and irresponsible act" that may have violated licensing agreements.

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/12/16/voting_system_said_to_fail/

for saying testing was "a very foolish and irresponsible act" that may have violated licensing agreements"?

I have never had a vendor complain to me about my testing of their hardware/software. It's just done routinely. I would never buy equipment knowing I couldn't test it 'at will'.

Or is this a silly question?

the big headline on section B today was "Diebold voting machines not secure..." Woo hoo! I am starting to enjoy myself.

Associated Press article Herald Today http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/contact_us/about
Some Diebold voting machines can be hacked
http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/13413981.htm


Thanks.

The press articles regarding the scrapping of Diebolds in both Volusia and Leon counties, might be useful to print and pass on to your own local city, county, and state officials.

I have been told by a politician that politicians respond well to news articles, and appreciate a one page bulletted cover page that summarizes and refers them to the information you give them, and that if the information you provide is very long, you can simply give the long document to the executive secretary and give the one page summaries to the officials referring them to the longer document.

The most crucial task that we all can perform in order to ensure that future vote counts accurately reflect voter intent, is to educate our elected officials and candidates not to concede any election until after reviewing the detailed vote counts broken out by precinct and vote type, and obtaining an independent audit or meaningful recount of voter verified paper ballots where possible.