May 23, 2006

• Jeb Bush in 08! Slogan: Because there’s nothing you can do about it anyway.
• Saddam Hussein managed to get 100% of his countrymen's votes, and he was using stone age technology. With Diebold, the Republicans are lucky to get 60%. Seems to me that Bush should give some serious consideration to shipping the entire Diebold crew out to Abu Ghraib for a permanent vacation, and replacing them by bringing Saddam over to the US and putting him in charge of the elections. It's not like they haven't done business with each other before.
• LOL @ smedleyman. why can't we just intuit our vote and have it sent directly to pat robertson?
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• You know how the Soviet Union solved this problem? With a pencil!!1!
• My bank's ATMs have Diebold's software. You have no idea how much this made me laugh nervously.
• Sponsored by: Lifelong Democrat West Palm Beach Jews for Buchanan and the Cook County League of Undead Voters. It’s funny how many people acknowledge that Papa Kennedy basically stole the election for his kid, but ‘Oh, that sort of thing doesn’t go on these days.’ I’m genuinely concerned that - given the lack of outcry on this from either of the big two parties (and given the extraordinary lengths the media, et. al, have gone to marginalize third parties attempt to put some light on the issue) that they really don’t have an interest in an honest election. I mean, it’s one thing if your opponent rips off the votes, but it’s another thing if the game is so rigged that the very concept of opposition is just a show.
• Dammit, FiftyPoints, you Godwinski'd the thread.
• In MonkeyFilterstan, electorate fucks you!
• So, when do we rise up and dethrone the barstards?
• We have to wait 'til Prince Albert comes out of the can.
• “This may be the worst security flaw we have seen in touch screen voting machines."
• “If you have access to these machines and you want to rig an election, anything is possible with the Diebold TS..." So is that directly from their advertising campaign?
• Congressional Election Nullified – Nobody Noticed
• Princeton researchers show how to steal an election with Diebold machines
• “Hotel Minibar” Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines
• Those bastards need Lara to come 'round and show 'em a thing or two. And kick their asses while she's at it.
• “Hotel Minibar” Keys Open Diebold Voting Machines Rats. I thought I was going to beat homunculus to this one.
• Neener.
• lurks like a butterfly, posts like a bee
• Will The Next Election Be Hacked? Fresh disasters at the polls -- and new evidence from an industry insider -- prove that electronic voting machines can't be trusted.
• *shakes fist at Diebold* Your ATMs suck, too!
• Actually, by the way, all Diebold ATMs do open with one of a few standard keys. But those keys only open the top. The money is in the vault. To be fair, all other brands of ATMs also work that way. But there's nothing you can do by opening the top as far as stealing. You could mess the thing up, but still not get any money. The thing that gets me even more is the fixed encryption. Diebold totally knows better than that. Their ATMs don't use fixed encryption because Visa and all the ATM networks won't allow it. In order to be certified to run by the big players, they have to conform to a reasonable standard of encryption security. Which tells me that they knew this level of encryption was unacceptable, but either figured their customer wouldn't know, figured their customer wouldn't care, or did it on purpose.
• Video testimony of vote machine whistleblower
• How to steal an election by hacking the vote
• And I certainly won't be linking to any of the leaked Diebold source code, which is available in various corners of the online world. That this is known, and nobody cares....grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! In other Diebold news, Diebold ATMs are just as secure as their voting machines. Can't be done on an NCR model ATM.
• Glitches cited in early voting
• "I resigned, effective April 30th, 2005 after having served through the 2004 elections and concluding that neither the White House nor the Congress was really serious about election reform. --Rev. DeForest Soaries, Former U.S. Elections Assistance Commission Chair And now, these messages.
• Scary Halloween Costume
• Will Every Vote Count?
• American Election Hacker Testifies
• Ahhh, I see that was already posted above. Sorry. (Still worth watching. Scary.)
• Missed this the first time round, so thanks for reposting, Mel. Seriously scary.
• They took away our paper ballots for the first time this year. We now no longer are even able to ask for them.
• Hacking Democracy Wow. That was pretty devastating.
• Md. Democrats Say GOP Plans to Block Voters
• 'American Blackout' director Ian Inaba is staging a revolution to combat potential fraud at the polls -- and he damn well wants it televised.
• Diebold Whistleblower Strikes Plea Deal on Felony Charges
• Convicted Whistleblower Speaks Out on Diebold, May Have Sentence Reduced
• FL 13: ‘Do we have to wait for a constitutional crisis?’
• Pride isn't the right word. This land is my land, this land is your land (if you're one of the lucky ones, of course!)...
• CA Releases Results of Red-Team Investigation of Voting Machines: All Three Systems Could Be Compromised
• CA Releases Source Code Review of Voting Machines -- New Security Flaws Revealed; Old Ones Were Never Fixed
• Meh, what else is new? You think this election will be any better?
• 'Diebold Election Systems, Inc.' Is No More! (At Least in Name)
• Tell the Feds What You Think of E-Voting Machines
• Diebold! *snorts in disgust So how much in federal bailouts and gimme-gimme are we going to be paying these creeps? Tell the Feds... Dang, I've got such a case of creeping apathy. I'll do it, but I don't think the Feds give a damn. The future president has been preselected.
• Can You Count On These Machines?
• Just read that link on the Blue, Hommie. One thing to say. We're. Fucked.
• PA primary will be unauditable; GOP blocks e-voting reform
• xkcd on Diebold