yttrx <yttrx@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Also, diebold machines do *not* and I repeat *not* have any sort of recent
> Microsoft patch set installed. NONE of them do, and they require a diebold
> certified engineer (you know, a guy with a cylendar key that you can open
> up a gumball machine with) to install ANY updates, since diebold won't let
> anyone else into their machines.
Its worse than that. No need to exploit an operating system flaw...
the diebold machines automatically look for code to execute whenever
you insert a memory card into the system. It looks for particular
file names, and if it finds them will attempt to reflash the BIOS,
load a new version of software, or run a maintenance script. The
details about this are well published on the Internet and an
exploit that flipped votes in a mock election has been demonstrated
by multiple security professionals.
To steal an election on a diebold machine, all you need is an
inexpensive commodity memory card, a PDF you can download from
the Internet, and a bit of computer programming skill. Then
just walk into the voting booth on election day, insert your
card, and let it do its work. If you are very clever, you
will have written it to infect the central tabulator with a
virus (that has already been demonstrated by third party
security experts) and have the code erase itself when done.
No paper trail, no evidence... stolen election, all tidy and
undetectable.
It has not been covered much by the media, but these machine
performed horribly this mid-term election, and not just diebold,
Sequoia was, if anything, worse. Machines crashed or failed to
start, losing votes and causing many people to be turned away
from the polls. In several places machines tallied up numbers
that are just not possible given the turnout numbers recorded
at the polling places. One candidate even received zero votes
when he knows he voted for himself. More reports of vote
flipping again this year, now effecting Republicans as much
if not more than he Democrats.
I for one am glad the Democrats won but not if the votes were
not counted correctly. Candidates and voters of all political
persuasions need to join together and demand reform.
Later,
Thad
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