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In fact, have they ever produced a lick of evidence that they changed a goll-durn thing to remedy the flaws found in the Hopkins report?

2. With the new TSx system, Diebold is switching to WIRELESS transmission of the voting data. Have they answered one single question about whether this can be hacked? (Understand the implications of hacking during transmission of the vote to the county: You can overwrite the ORIGINAL VOTES in the precinct this way, destroying the value of the memory card as a backup system).

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/6538203.htm and http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/6538170.htm

Well yes, they did answer a question about being hacked. They basically admitted that it could happen. No worry, says Diebold spokesman in an article by Erika D. Smith in the Akron Beacon News -- hackers wouldn't get the official results, only the unofficial results. It takes several days to make the results official, he says. And to make them official they do what -- look at the memory card (which can be hacked) and/or the GEMS database (which can be hacked). (In fact a hacker could hit both at the same time, during the upload). I feel secure now.

3. Ohio delays decision to pick voting machine vendor, until -- you guessed it -- defense contractor SAIC gives Diebold a clean bill of health. The SAIC has not one, not two, but THREE ties to the electronic voting indusry:

1) Built voting machines for Diversified Dynamics

2) Marketed electronic voter registration system

3) Two former directors of SAIC are now directors of VoteHere, a voting machine company.

4. Yes, and you'll be delighted to know that Georgia not only lost some of its memory cards (containing thousands of votes) in the 2002 election, but now it can't find its certification documents. That's right folks, Georgia doesn't seem to be able to locate the certification letter for the Diebold machines. Wait -- new answer -- they just announced they are not sure what is meant by "certification" documents.

Can these people get any more arrogant?

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5. Where's Bob? Well once there were two brothers named Bob and Todd. They started a company -- voting machine, company, that is. Then Bob went down to Texas, and got in charge of another company -- voting machine, company, that is. Bob and Todd, and Diebold and ES&S;, soon had 80 percent of America voting on their machines.

But now where's Bob? Haven't heard hide nor hair of him. He always comes into news interviews as the President of Diebold Election Systems, but as of the end of July, it seems someone else is using that title. Meet Tom Swidarski, President of Diebold Election Systems. Not a peep anywhere in the news media about where Bob is. Bob? Oh Bobbbb! What happened to Bob Urosevich?

Source: Votefraud.org

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