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CornField

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Thu May-18-06 10:40 AM
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Iowa Diebolds Not Sequestered

Edited on Thu May-18-06 10:41 AM by CornField

From my friend at Iowa Voters blog

Iowa has not ordered the sequestering of its new Diebold touchscreen election equipment, according to John Hedgecoth, Deputy Secretary of State for Operations. So InsideBayArea.com was in error when it made that claim last week...

Hedgecoth told an independent online newspaper called The New Standard that "his office instructed elections officials in the state’s 99 counties to upload a final version of the software into their machines just before Election Day and then seal the machine with the memory card in it. 'So we are controlling both the software in the field with a final version that is decided upon by our elections division, and then we’re securing the memory card against tampering on Election Day,' he said."

Sorry... meant to post this in the Iowa forum. I guess some of you might want to know too, so I'll leave it.

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JimDandy

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Thu May-18-06 02:15 PM
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1. When's their L&A test? Hopefully AFTER the new install.

Not that L&As do much any way, but at least they are a public event where we can insert ourselves.

Obviously, they still don't realize the significance of the Hursti II report.

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anoraksia53

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Fri May-19-06 10:18 AM
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5. yeah thats an

understatement.

They must be complete idiots to think they can just seal up the memory card........This sounds like they only know about Hursti I and they think its all the same........

Somebody should tell the media cause this is friggin disaster.

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simonm

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Thu May-18-06 02:56 PM
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2. Full Disclosure of Exploit

Edited on Thu May-18-06 03:01 PM by simonm

If the exploit details were made public I doubt they would ignore it. Every script kiddie in the US would have the capability to hack Diebold touchscreens. I prefer to have the exploit in the public domain than limit it to a selected few. The "bad guys" most likely have the details already.

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BeFree

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Thu May-18-06 05:58 PM
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3. Didn't you hear?

The 'expert' says that the machines don't steal votes, never have.

But then, why does the expert want to get rid of the machines?

I wished I could figure out what's going on with that.....

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kster

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Thu May-18-06 10:57 PM
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4. Kick .........nt

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