{"id":880,"date":"2003-11-03T14:39:48","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T21:39:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/can-we-trust-electronic-voting-machines\/"},"modified":"2003-11-03T14:39:48","modified_gmt":"2003-11-03T21:39:48","slug":"can-we-trust-electronic-voting-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/can-we-trust-electronic-voting-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Can we trust electronic voting machines?"},"content":{"rendered":"

File Sharing Pits Copyright Against Free Speech<\/a><\/p>\n

Diebold Election Systems, which makes voting machines, is waging legal war against grass-roots advocates, including dozens of college students, who are posting on the Internet copies of the company\u2019s internal communications about its electronic voting machines. …<\/p>\n

Diebold has become a favorite target of advocates who accuse it of partisanship: company executives have made large contributions to the Republican Party and the chief executive, Walden W. O\u2019Dell, said in an invitation to a fund-raiser that he was \u201ccommitted to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.\u2019\u2019 …<\/p>\n

\u201cAre these companies staffed by folks completely ignorant of computer security<\/i>,\u201d she said, \u201cor are they just blatantly flaunting that they can breach every possible rule of protocol and still sell voting machines everywhere with impunity?\u201d<\/b> …<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s very different from the way that Diebold has been doing things.\u201d Mr. Rubin, who has received a cease-and-desist notice from Diebold because of his research, said, \u201cThe solution is to stop selling insecure voting machines and not to continue threatening students who are only trying to protect our democracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

From one of the internal memos:<\/p>\n

\u201cI need some answers! Our department is being audited by the County. I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here “looking dumb”.\u201d [source: http:\/\/chroot.net\/s\/lists\/support.w3archive\/200101\/msg00068.html ]<\/p>\n

Memo Excerpts<\/a><\/p>\n

Here is another memo excerpt (and link to them all):<\/p>\n

Re: jresult doubles the votes – in 1-17-7-3<\/a><\/p>\n

Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2000 [mjh: two weeks before Bush v Gore]<\/p>\n

We ran central count totals of 134 ballots and it shows as 268 votes on the Jview.exe.
\n
\nScoop: Diebold Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting Fraud<\/a><\/p>\n

DELAND, Fla., Nov. 11 – Something very strange happened on election night to Deborah Tannenbaum, a Democratic Party official in Volusia County. At 10 p.m., she called the county elections department and learned that Al Gore was leading George W. Bush 83,000 votes to 62,000. But when she checked the county’s Web site for an update half an hour later, she found a startling development: Gore’s count had dropped by 16,000 votes, while an obscure Socialist candidate had picked up 10,000–all because of a single precinct with only 600 voters.
\n– Washington Post Sunday , November 12, 2000 ; Page A22<\/p>\n

E-voting flap sparks legal threats<\/a><\/p>\n

In one series of e-mails, a senior engineer dismisses concern from a lower-level programmer who questions why the company lacked certification for a customized operating system used in touch-screen voting machines.
\n The Federal Election Commission requires voting software to be certified by an independent research lab.
\n In another e-mail, a Diebold executive scolded programmers for leaving software files on an Internet site without password protection.
\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153This potentially gives the software away to whomever wants it,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d the manager wrote in the e-mail.
\n March contends the public has a right to know about Diebold security problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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