Dean warned of Diebold Voting Manipulation

posted by ewing2001 on Thursday January 22, @10:33PM

Dean's Ballot Conspiracy Theory

NY POST -January 22, 2004

The former Vermont governor warned the head of Diebold, which makes electronic voting machines, may rig his equipment so that ballots from Democratic voters are not counted.

"Whether you can program a chip or not is up for debate. I think you probably can and have a vote for Al Gore count as a vote for Pat Buchanan," said Dean, who says he'd like every electronic vote counter to leave a paper trail.

Some Democrats have charged that Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell is not to be trusted because he's been a Republican

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EDS-Partner VoteHere reports computer break-in

posted by ewing2001 on Monday December 29, @07:12AM

E-voting firm reports computer break-in

Federal authorities investigating VoteHere intrusion

MSNBC -Dec. 29, 2003

BELLEVUE, Wash. - A company developing encryption-based software for secure electronic voting has itself become the victim of a computer break-in, the company’s top executive told MSNBC.com. Federal authorities have confirmed that the incident is under investigation.

The intrusion into Bellevue-based VoteHere’s corporate network occurred in October, said Jim Adler, VoteHere’s founder, president and chief executive officer. No suspects have yet been named, but Adler said his company, in cooperation with investigators, had developed substantial information about the source of the intrusion over the past two months.

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5 Felons worked for Diebold

posted by ewing2001 on Wednesday December 17, @06:40AM

Critics: Convicted felons worked for electronic voting companies

AP/SF Bay Area -Wed, Dec. 17, 2003 SAN FRANCISCO - A manufacturer of electronic voting machines has employed at least five convicted felons as managers, according to critics demanding more stringent background checks for people responsible for voting machine software.

Voter advocate Bev Harris alleged Tuesday that managers of a subsidiary of Diebold Inc., one of the country's largest voting equipment vendors, included a cocaine trafficker, a man who conducted fraudulent stock transactions, and a programmer jailed for falsifying computer records.

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Graham wants paper record

posted by ewing2001 on Wednesday December 10, @04:55AM

Graham Introduces Legislation To Ensure America's Votes Count

Senate.gov -Press Release December 9, 2003

Senator Bob Graham, D-Florida, today introduced the Voter Verification Act, legislation that would require computer voting systems to produce a paper record.

"After the election of 2000 and the mid-term election - where stories of voter problems were not uncommon - we have to put an electoral system into place in which Americans can have full confidence," said Graham. "This legislation will take us one step further to ensure that every vote really counts and we do not have another debacle like the 2000 election."

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Diebold Inc. has agreed not to sue Voting Rights Advocates

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday December 02, @08:41AM

Diebold once shut down BlackBoxVoting.org and threatened GlobalFreePress
Update: Paul Krugman/NY Times: "The credibility of U.S. democracy may be at stake" (12/02)
Kucinich supports anti-Diebold campaign

Electronic Voting Firm Drops Legal Case

Photo: AP's "example" of an e-voting activist website by "Joe"

AP -Tue Dec 2,12:22 AM ET

SAN JOSE, Calif. - In a major victory for free speech enthusiasts on the Internet, Diebold Inc. has agreed not to sue voting rights advocates who publish leaked documents about the alleged security breaches of electronic voting.

A Diebold spokesman promised in a conference call Monday with U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel and attorneys from the Electronic Frontier Foundation that it would not sue dozens of students, computer scientists and ISP operators who received cease-and-desist letters from August to October.

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Andy Stephenson Announces Candidacy for Secretary of State

posted by NYC on Tuesday November 25, @05:38PM

Date Tuesday November 24th, 2:00 pm

FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:

Andy Stephenson, 206.778.0524, stephenson_4_sos@yahoo.com

Gentry Lange, Campaign Manager, g@art13.com

Andy Stephenson Announces Candidacy for Secretary of State

Immediately calls for Sam Reed to justify his position on Black Box Voting, and his apparent support for a paperless unverifiable computer system.

SEATTLE - Seattle Subway owner, Andy Stephenson came out swinging 14 months ago as one of several researchers for Bev Harris, a Seattle based writer who broke the story on Diebold's voting machines and the inherent lack of security in paperless voting machines currently being installed throughout the United States.

"Most people don't realize this is very much a state issue," said Andy "Katherine Harris was the Secretary of State of Florida. Diebold machines threw the election. And King County is already famous for using these machines for doing end-runs around the official vote tallies. These machines have the capability of being manipulated built-in, pure and simple.""

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BBV: This morning, I wrote a book on Election Fraud... read it now..

posted by admin on Sunday November 16, @11:51AM

by TruthIsAll

Well, not quite..just got the facts together in one place. Google can make anyone a researcher, if you know what you are looking for..

Election Fraud: A brief historical overview.

DISENFRANCHISEMENT OF BLACKS IN FLORIDA- Greg Palast
Black voters in Florida were disenfranchised in the ... which wrongly kept thousands,particularly blacks, from casting ... Gregory Palast examines the sources of the ...
www.gregpalast.com - 38k - Cached - Similar pages

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Diebold got sued

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday November 04, @10:09PM

Electronic Voting Firm Sued Over Threats

AP -Tue Nov 4, 8:13 PM ET

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Free speech advocates sued a manufacturer of electronic voting machines Tuesday, demanding it stop sending legal threats to groups that publish company documents leaked by a hacker.

Voting activists who have received the cease-and-desist orders, including students from at least 20 universities, claim the documents raise serious security concerns about Diebold Inc., which has more than 50,000 touchscreen voting terminals nationwide.

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and Stanford University's Cyberlaw Clinic filed for a temporary restraining order in federal court.

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New E-Voting Scandal: Uncertified Software in Alameda

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday November 04, @01:40PM

California Halts E-Vote Certification

Wired -November 4

Uncertified software may have been installed on electronic voting machines used in one California county, according to the secretary of state's office.

Marc Carrel, assistant secretary of state for policy and planning, told attendees Thursday at a panel on voting systems that California was halting the certification process for new voting machines manufactured by Diebold Election Systems.

….The reason, Carrel said, was that his office had recently received "disconcerting information" that Diebold may have installed uncertified software on its touch-screen machines used in one county.

He did not say which county was involved. However, secretary of state spokesman Douglas Stone later told Wired News that the county in question is Alameda.

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Diebold Targeted By Electronic Civil Disobedience

posted by admin on Wednesday October 22, @03:29AM

UPDATE: Diebold Memos' Smoking Gun?
Volusia County Memos Disclose Election 2000 Vote Fraud (10/24)

ALERT: Search The Memos Online at GFP

UPDATE:
Slashdot: Swarthmore Students Keep Diebold Memos Online
WIRED: Students Fight E-Vote Firm
The Inquirer: Civil disobedience' campaign targets Diebold

Earlier this week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that it will defend the right of Online Privacy Group, the Internet service provider for San Francisco Indymedia, to host links to the controversial memos. Going one step further, Why War? and SCDC members are the first to publicly refuse to comply with Diebold's cease and desist order by continually providing access to the documents.

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Diebold Memos- The never linking story

posted by ewing2001 on Friday October 17, @12:05PM

Firm's attempts to down hyperlinks an attack on free speech, says EFF

Info: Bev Harris Telephone Interview up as Online Video at INN World Report
Update: William Rivers Pitt | Electronic Voting: What You Need To Know Truthout.org -10/20
Update: Chapters 8 and 9 of "BLACK BOX VOTING: Ballot Tampering in The 21st Century" now available

Theinquirer.net -Saturday October 18, 2003

Diebold tactic of attacking ISPs attacked

THE ANTICS OF DIEBOLD, a maker of electronic voting systems, which has been leaning on ISPs to get them to prevent linking to a election of its internal memos here, have drawn the EFF into the ring.

The memos seem to show how Diebold sought to demo software it didn't have and apparently installed outdated versions of its GEM software in elections.

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Diebold Voting Controversy picked up by British Media

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday October 14, @04:46PM

All the President's votes?

Those figures were more or less what political experts would have expected in state with a long tradition of electing Democrats to statewide office. But then the results came in, and all of Georgia appeared to have been turned upside down. Barnes lost the governorship to the Republican, Sonny Perdue, 46 per cent to 51 per cent, a swing of as much as 16 percentage points from the last opinion polls. Cleland lost to Chambliss 46 per cent to 53, a last-minute swing of 9 to 12 points.

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Former Diebold Worker: Company installed Uncertified Patches

posted by ewing2001 on Monday October 13, @08:07AM

Exclusive: Bev Harris Telephone Interview now up as Online Video at INN World Report,
GFP's new Cooperation Partner

Did E-Vote Firm Patch Election?

WIRED -Oct. 13, 2003

Diebold Election Systems has had a tumultuous year, and it doesn't look like it's getting any better.

Last January the electronic voting machine maker faced public embarrassment when voting activists revealed the company's insecure FTP server was making its software source code available for everyone to see.

Now a former worker in Diebold's Georgia warehouse says the company installed patches on its machines before the state's 2002 gubernatorial election that were never certified by independent testing authorities or cleared with Georgia election officials.

If the charges are true, Diebold could be in violation of federal and state election-certification rules. The charges also raise questions about the integrity of the Georgia election results and any other election that uses patched Diebold systems that have not been re-certified.

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California Recall -the Next Voting Fraud?

posted by ewing2001 on Friday October 03, @09:30AM

Republicans and Brits Will Count California's Recall Votes

EcoTalk -10/2/03

by Lynn Landes

When will the Democrats wake up and smell the fix? There is a reason why George Bush and his cronies wear a perpetual smirk on their faces. There's a reason for their cocksure confidence. They may not win every election, but if they don't, it will because they chose not to. For nothing is clearer than this, Republicans dominate voting technology companies in America. And they have foreign partners.

A handful of Republican corporations and British-owned companies control the vote count in California and across the nation. Britain and it's offshore territories not only shelter corporate America from taxes due to the U.S. Treasury, the Brits are also providing a haven for vote-counting companies like Accenture, the former Andersen Consulting, currently located in Bermuda and slated to count the military online vote in 2004. It's all enough to make one wonder who won the Revolutionary War... American patriots or the British and American Tories?

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Blackboxvoting.org shut down

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday September 23, @05:59PM

Blackboxvoting.com still up

Update: Titanic About to Hit Iceberg (NY Times)

blackboxvoting.com -September 23

Due to a dispute with Diebold, Incorporated, and its wholly owned subsidiary Diebold Election Systems, Inc. (collectively "Diebold"), which is claiming links to certain materials that do not reside on the blackboxvoting.org website constitute copyright infringement, blackboxvoting.org has been temporarily disabled.

We regret any inconvenience this may cause visitors and journalists to the blackboxvoting.org site and hope to have this matter resolved shortly.

In the interim, send questions or information requests to admin@blackboxvoting.org.

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How We Lost The Vote - How To Get It Back

posted by ewing2001 on Thursday September 11, @07:35PM

Forget 2004, think Now!
The next election is already rigged by Weapon- and Oilindustry.
The ties are endless: Halliburton, Frank Carlucci (Carlyle Group), Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Saudis, Ex-Arthur Andersen (Enron), Robert Gates (ex-CIA) and Perot Systems

Update: Diebold Internal Mail Confirms U.S. Vote Count Vulnerabilities (Scoop Friday, 12 September 2003)

How We Lost The Vote - How To Get It Back

O'Dell's letter should serve as a call to action for Americans, and for citizens around the world, who have surrendered their elections to technology and those who control it.

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Weapon- and OilIndustry supports Deibold

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday August 26, @04:46PM

Ex-Andersen Consulting, with RoyalDutch/Shell member on board, lobbying bill for controversial e-voting machines
-see also related articles by Lynn Landes incl.Internet Voting - The End of Democracy?" (08/28)

Voting Forum coming on Sept 7 with Landes, Dr. Rebecca Mercuri, Marc Rotenberg (EPIC), Ina Howard (Greg Palast)
Update: Executive of Diebold Inc. involved in Bush re-election campaign conflict

The Private Voting Meeting: "Piecing it Together"

By Bev Harris

I spent the weekend pondering what I heard at the ITAA/E-voting secret phone conference Friday. I then went and did a little checking into names and people and came up with some interesting facts and even more interesting questions.

1) The Elections Systems Task Force was the major lobbyist for the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). The ESTF's main purpose was to get congress to foot the bill for e-voting machines ($3.9 billion) and moving the country away from an auditable system, to a system that has no credible auditibility.

Questions: How much money did these companies spend getting HAVA enacted? Who got the money?

2) The ESTF was comprised of Northrop-Grumman, Lockheed-Martin, EDS and Accenture. These companies all have major government contracts, most with the Defense Department.

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Diebold goes Wireless

posted by ewing2001 on Saturday August 16, @08:39AM

What is Bob Urosevich's "Masterplan" for 2004?

Goofy voting machine news of the day

blackboxvoting.org -Saturday, August 16, 2003

1. Ohio to recommend buying uncertified Diebold product? Diebold has decided to sell its new TSx touch screen system to Ohio. Problem is, according to the Cleveland Plain Dealer: THIS SYSTEM HAS NEVER BEEN CERTIFIED! The counties must buy the machines in four weeks. No worries, Diebold says it hopes it will have certification in 4-5 weeks. (Huh?)

More on this: Gee, is it true then, that the system the Hopkins scientists studied was old and out of date? Well, consider this: One of the folders on the infamous FTP site was -- you guessed it -- labeled "final certification" documents for the TSx system. In these documents is the very interesting statement under "change log" -- they said they did not need to submit a change log because it is based on a previous submission. So...were there changes or weren't there?

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Voting Fraud: Flawed software WAS used in Georgia

posted by ewing2001 on Tuesday August 05, @05:25AM
from the Scoop/BlackBoxVoting dept.

Bev Harris: Voting Company Reverses Stand

Scoop -Tuesday, 5 August 2003

Voting Company Reverses Stand: Flawed software WAS used in Georgia and other elections
- There are “kinks” in touch screens

According to an Aug. 4 article in Wired.com: Diebold company spokesman Mike Jacobsen “confirmed that the source code Rubin's team examined was last used in November 2002 general elections in Georgia, Maryland and in counties in California and Kansas.”

Actually, the software may have been used in as many as 13 states and 197 counties, according to Diebold documents given to Santa Clara County in Feb. 2003 - list of counties at bottom.

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Voting Fraud- Bev Harris on Diebold (Pt.4)

posted by ewing2001 on Monday July 28, @02:47PM
from the Scoop dept.

Bev Harris: Diebold Rebuttals Don't Stand Up
Tuesday, 29 July 2003, 8:58 am
Article: Bev Harris

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Privatization of Government Services connected with Halliburton

posted by ewing2001 on Sunday July 20, @07:18AM
from the Lynn-Landes dept.

Lynn Landes

Offshore Company Captures Online Military Vote

by Lynn Landes 7/16/03

Last year, while President Bush marshaled U.S. forces for the invasion of Iraq, the patriots at the Department of Defense awarded the contract for a new online voting system for the military... to an offshore company.

It gets worse.

Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) is the system and Accenture (formerly Anderson Consulting of Enron bankruptcy fame) is the company. And although Accenture has not been officially implicated in the Enron scandal, they have created a reputation of their own that is already raising eyebrows.

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