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January 22, 2007 at 20:24:21
by Sharona Merel
SNIP... Similar language has been noted in the case of the computer voting industry, as follows:
· On July 8, 2003, an article was published, by Bev Harris of Black Box Voting, elections investigator and author of Black Box Voting – Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century, stating that Johns Hopkins and Rice University technologists had discovered secret "back doors" in the Diebold GEMS software source code (which accounts for the tabulation of 50% of America's votes) by which votes could be changed, in real time, by remote, during America's elections.
· In January 2005, it was reported at Boston.com, that SAIC was awarded a $170 million contract for a PROMIS-type computer software program for the FBI, intended "to help agents share data about terrorist threats and criminal cases." Could SAIC be the keeper of the "improved" PROMIS technology?
· Robert Gates has personally presided over election engineering, in association with SAIC and VoteHere (satellite cryptography technology).
· An electronic voting project is in progress, at MIT and Caltech, funded by Carnegie and others, that is based on satellite cryptography technology, and which entrusts the security and control of whole elections to five individuals, possessing one-fifth, each, of a single encryption key. Encryption is as much about secrecy as it is about security. Exactly what is being encrypted and who is to be entrusted with the secrets?
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