Voting Company Reverses Stand:Flawed software WAS used in Georgia

[spotbird]

- 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.”

NEWS RELEASE
From: Bev Harris
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0308/S00045.htm
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ELECTRONIC VOTING PLANS CONTINUE DESPITE CONCERNS
(08-04-2003) - San Diego is moving ahead with plans to purchase an electronic voting system despite warnings from some experts that the technology may not be safe from ballot-rigging, it was reported Monday.
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http://www.kfmb.com/topstory17297.html
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If there were a way for the Democrats to manipulate the vote then this story would take off. Mind you I’m not suggesting that we cheat, only show the public that we could to get the wingers interested. How are they so sure that only the Republicans will abuse this system?

[Changenow]

1. Does anyone know why only the Republicans can abuse these systems?

If that is what they are up to, why can't the Democrats beat them at their own game using the new rules?

[Divernan]

2. RE: Georgia - Senator Max Clelland should demand GA press criminal

charges and he should file a civil suit against Diebold.
"Georgia, perhaps hardest hit by the growing Diebold Scandal, is now facing renewed questions about missing memory cards and other irregularities. On election night during the 2002 general election, 67 memory cards, containing thousands of votes, went missing.. . .
Georgia officials, responding to a Freedom of Information Act request by Georgia voters, admitted that they did not have any of the certification documents clearing use of the machines following a series of unexamined program patches put on the machines right before the election. GEORGIA LAW REQUIRES THAT ANYTIME SOFTWARE IS UPDATED, IT MUST BE RECERTIFIED, BUT THE PATCHES WERE NEVER EXAMINED BY TESTING LABS.. . .Diebold denies that patches were done.
But according to the technicians who administered the patches, they were told to download them directly off the Internet from the Diebold ftp site, rather than getting them from Microsoft (as they would if they were Windows patches) or from the Independent Testing Authority (as the Georgia examiner for voting machines describes the required procedure."
Maybe this is old news to you guys, but I haven't seen thess details before!

[Walt Starr]

3. It's a gun, but it's so old there's no smoke

We need to keep digging.

[Changenow]

8. Has there been any contact with him?

Why aren't law suits being tried?

[Changenow]

9. Has there been any contact with him?

Why aren't law suits being tried?

[SoCalDem]

4. Print this and circulate..along with the real articles of course

[Bushfire]

5. Love that graphic!

Where did you find that? ;)

[Junkdrawer]

7. Look here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=128&topic_id=765&mesg_id=765

[SoCalDem]

10. That's where I found this

:)

[Loonman]

6. shitgoddamm

No wonder that anvil-headed idiot Perdue won!

[samsingh]

11. i guess many repugs just don't

care to support democracy

[Starpass]

12. Man I get tired of saying this: WERE'S THE OUTRAGE

Seriously---this could set a real tone for '04. It's one of those: You can't trust a republican issue!! And, '04 election has everything to do with trust. That's what they are trying to go after Bush on. Sooooo, why isn't this screamed by the DNC and every Dem and every Dem presidential candidate and the people who lost in Georgia. My God,,,,,,,the silence continues to be deafening.

[SoCalDem]

13. They are being.......well.......

nice:(.. They might get angry hate mail from repubes.. Wooo can't have that!..

[DemBones DemBones]

14. So, can we recall "Governor" Perdue & "Senator" Chambliss now?

Inquiring Georgians want to know!

"Just an old sweet song and Georgia on my mind."