Hack the Vote!

[funeralcrasher]

Georgia still uses Diebold systems for elections.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8112825559202389150&q=hacking+the+vote Programmer testifies under oath that a simple change to the operating system of Diebold machines could easily alter election outcomes, and would be undetectable in the absence of paper ballots to compare machine totals with actual votes.

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/07/31/1646246 The Open Voting Foundation recently took apart a Diebold machine and discovered a horrifying fact - there is a single switch inside the system which allows it to boot up unprotected, where changes could be made to the OS.

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.commondreams.org%2Fheadlines04%2F0422-10.htm&ei=F2bOROOQKoTgwQLdm82iBA&sig2=wVGI1OWt1oBMDlyRgR5ZqQ San Diego, CA uncertifies Diebold machines.

http://www.youtube.com/p.swf?video_id=7WmC4grXdIk&eurl=&iurl=http%3A//sjl-static16.sjl.youtube.com/vi/7WmC4grXdIk/2.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskJYNFGw9C9kX6lp72sfstd0 Tom Feeney(R), rigged the US 2004 election in South Florida using Diebold machines.


Tell me again why we continue to allow ourselves to be screwed like this?

Comments

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

For what it's worth, I know a bill passed this year in the General Assembly that will mandate paper receipts for voting machines by 2008.

[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

Two years to late.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Agreed, but also better late than never.

[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure I can stomach two more years of GOP control in house and senate. I'm not sure our Democratic Repbulic can withstand much more abuse.

[terracinque.livejournal.com]

Well, fixing the electronic voting problem is not going to put Democrats back in the majority. Not in this state.

[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

even so, I want to know my vote counts.. I don't want to give elections away on the assumption Dems will lose. Anything can happen (though probably nothing favoring Democrats will..)

[eboe.livejournal.com]

ohio still uses them too. as a matter of fact, they were chosen by our notorious sec of state Blackwell, who of course is up for Gov this year. If he wins, someone needs to kill him.

[pkbarbiedoll.livejournal.com]

Weren't there accusations that some Kerry votes went to Bush in 04, via Diebold?

[eboe.livejournal.com]

yes, bigtime. our state gets a bad rap as a red state, but kerry only lost by 110,000 or so...