GA voters groups demand immediate decertification of Diebold.

Things are coming to a head around the country. The new gaping Diebold security hole has prompted this action. VotersUnite



Voting Groups Call for Immediate Decerfication of Georgia's Diebold Election System
By Donna Price, Georgians for Verified Voting and John Fortuin, Defenders of Democracy
June 18, 2006


Georgians for Verified Voting and Defenders of Democracy recently called for the resignation of Secretary of State Cathy Cox for her position as the state's chief election adminstrator. they also called for the immediate de-certification of diebold election equipment for use in the state.

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As representatives of the undersigned groups, we are calling on the Georgia State Election Board and the Office of the Secretary of State to immediately decertify the state’s Diebold Election System (DES). We call for the Georgia Elections Division to begin immediate preparations for the deployment of an alternative means of voting in time for the 2006 primaries and General Election.

A security vulnerability recently exposed in the architecture of the DES is being called a "major national security risk" by computer science and security experts. The effect of this vulnerability is that voting systems could be infected throughout an entire state, enabling an attacker to alter election results on a massive scale without detection. Once the vulnerability is exploited, the voting system could be under the control of the attacker, not only for the current election, but also for future elections.

"It's the most severe security flaw ever discovered in a voting system," said Michael I. Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who is an examiner of electronic voting systems for Pennsylvania…”

Link: http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1404&Itemid=113

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Link: http://chronicle.augusta.com/login_1.4.shtml?orq:http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/061806/met_85770.shtml

Link: http://chronicle.augusta.com/login_1.4.shtml?orq:http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/061806/met_85786.shtml

but my best wishes are with y'all that you're able to follow the lead of NM and get 100% verifiable paper ballots.

It took a really ugly lawsuit in this state to shame the lege and the DINO governor Richardson into getting that bill through and signed.

The suit is still in the court. ES&S is fighting it every step of the way, citing their disenfranchisement of 17,000+ of us is "intellectual property."

http://www.voteraction.org/

Lawsuits in:
»Arizona
»California
»Colorado
»New Jersey
»New Mexico
»New York
»Pennsylvania

these voting machines and how among other things there is no way to have a recount in case of a dispute. If Lou hammers an issue long enough others start mentioning it.