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Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:42:34 -0600 (CST)
From: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Brian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [toeslist] more on vote rigging
Oct 23 2003
Indymedia fights Diebold's legal attempt to silence discussions about
e-voting
Documents are publicly available that detail vulnerabilities in
electronic voting machines manufactured by the Diebold Corporation. Diebold
has been sending cease and desist letters to internet service providers
(ISPs)
that host the documents or links to them. Numerous Indymedia servers have
been
targeted by Diebold in its campaign to suppress this critical information.
Indymedia will defend its right to post internal memos and documents
detailing vulnerabilities in electronic voting machines manufactured by the
Diebold Corporation. The documents were made publicly available, and
subsequently reported by writer Bev Harris on her websites
blackboxvoting.com
and blackboxvoting.org.
The vast information contained in these documents is still being
investigated by top computer scientists and researchers, but a set of widely
circulated internal memos detail Diebold's flippant disregard of test runs,
accuracy audits, and security for its voting machines. System tests (much
like
a dress rehearsal) are often required by local election laws--Diebold memos
mention how they simply changed the name "memory test" to "***System Test
Passed***" as if the machine performed a self audit. The memos also say how
Diebold installed new versions of the voting software that were left
untested.
Their election results are not secure, as evidenced by this comment in
one email regarding the "contents" (i.e. the votes) of the e-voting
machines:
"Now, where the perception comes in is that its right now very *easy* to
change the contents. Double click the .mdb file." Diebold's Republican
executives have touted e-voting as a solution to the punchcard voting
systems
that scandalized Florida in 2000. In fact, this evidence of security and
reliability flaws raises serious questions about this "solution" to election
woes in the US.
Read Entire Feature
[ earlier feature, August 2003 | Madison IMC
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