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  • From: David R.Matusiak <dave AT matusiak.org>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [internetworkers] [kook] More eVoting Humor
  • Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 15:16:03 -0400

goodness, is the Internet full of kooks or what?? somehow or another, they are getting their skewed political views quietly inserted into media outlets (thankfully none of the "majors" will report such obviously Anti-Bush hogwash) throughout the country. the only rational explanation for this is that there is some enormous, but secretive left-wing liberal conspiracy to try and oust Our Patriotic President. those selfish people will stop at nothing to continue imposing suffering on poor members of our...

/drm
(links provided thanks to folks much smarter [or is it kookier?] than I.)
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http://indybay.org/news/2003/10/1651138.php

Why George W. Bush will almost certainly be the next president of the United States -- no matter what the people of the United States might want.

The American vote-count is controlled by three major corporate players -- Diebold, ES&S, and Sequoia -- with a fourth, Science Applications International Corporation, coming on strong. These companies -- all of them hardwired into the Bushist Party power grid -- have been given billions of dollars by the Bush Regime to complete a sweeping
computerization of voting machines nationwide by the 2004 election. These glitch-riddled systems -- many using "touch-screen" technology that leaves no paper trail at all -- are almost laughably open to manipulation, according to corporate whistleblowers and computer scientists at Stanford, Johns Hopkins and other universities.

(national security, anyone?)
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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,60713,00.html

Alameda County uses 4,000 touch-screen voting machines manufactured by Diebold Election Systems. But last month, officials in Maryland released a report saying that the Diebold machines were "at high risk of compromise" due to security flaws in the software. Despite this, officials in Alameda County said their policies and procedures for using the machines will secure them against voting fraud.

However, information obtained by Wired News at a training session for Alameda County poll workers indicates that security lapses in the use of the equipment and poor worker training could expose the election to serious tampering.

Voting-machine experts say the lapses could allow a poll worker or an outsider to change votes in machines without being detected. And because other problems inherent in the software won’t be fixed before the recall, experts say sophisticated intruders can intercept and change vote tallies as officials transmit them electronically.

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Maryland's audit of the Diebold Voting system (the censored version that is 1/5 of the original document):

http://www.dbm.maryland.gov/dbm_search/technology/ toc_voting_system_report/votingsystemreportfinal.pdf
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peace.



  • [internetworkers] [kook] More eVoting Humor, David R . Matusiak, 10/07/2003

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