OH MY GOD. Watch this video.

[helderheid]

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/videos.html

[chat_noir]

1. Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine

Abstract This paper presents a fully independent security study of a Diebold AccuVote-TS voting machine, including its hardware and software. We obtained the machine from a private party. Analysis of the machine, in light of real election procedures, shows that it is vulnerable to extremely serious attacks. For example, an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code; malicious code on a machine could steal votes undetectably, modifying all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates. An attacker could also create malicious code that spreads automatically and silently from machine to machine during normal election activities — a voting-machine virus. We have constructed working demonstrations of these attacks in our lab. Mitigating these threats will require changes to the voting machine's hardware and software and the adoption of more rigorous election procedures.

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/

Full research paper http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/ts-paper.pdf

[helderheid]

2. I am sending an email to EVERYONE I KNOW!

[bobbolink]

5. The ones who need to see it are the Dem leadership!

Got an inside track for them?

Unfortunately, the sound on the video is messed up for me.

sigh...

[helderheid]

11. I do actually. Salt Lake County Mayor Corroon (on my email list) is Dean's

1st cousin.

[bobbolink]

13. GO FOR IT!! OK, I'll be quiet now... ~~guffaw~~

REally, seriously, this is the type of "in" that is badly needed!

Does he have Dean's ear??

We badly need an 11th hour breakthrough!

[helderheid]

23. They spend Thanksgivings together and the Mayor and I are on a 1st name

basis! :D i sent him this letter:


This couldn't be more crucial. Our votes are our voices. Please visit this website and watch the video and please send this to everyone you know,

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/videos.html

Main Findings The main findings of our study are:

1. Malicious software running on a single voting machine can steal votes with little if any risk of detection. The malicious software can modify all of the records, audit logs, and counters kept by the voting machine, so that even careful forensic examination of these records will find nothing amiss. We have constructed demonstration software that carries out this vote-stealing attack.

2. Anyone who has physical access to a voting machine, or to a memory card that will later be inserted into a machine, can install said malicious software using a simple method that takes as little as one minute. In practice, poll workers and others often have unsupervised access to the machines.

3. AccuVote-TS machines are susceptible to voting-machine viruse! s - computer viruses that can spread malicious software automatically and invisibly from machine to machine during normal pre- ! and post-election activity. We have constructed a demonstration virus that spreads in this way, installing our demonstration vote-stealing program on every machine it infects.

4. While some of these problems can be eliminated by improving Diebold's software, others cannot be remedied without replacing the machines' hardware. Changes to election procedures would also be required to ensure security.

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/

I URGE YOU to vote absentee on a paper ballot and take a picture of your ballot before you send it in.

Remember to pass this email on. Thank you!

[bobbolink]

28. That's great news. Except... he needs to see it waaaay before

Thanksgiving. ~~guffaw~~

I'm curious... how did you stumble upon this video? I finally got it to play right, and I'm sharing it with the librarians as we speak. :)

[helderheid]

40. Check this:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2128799&mesg_id=2128799

and

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2127870&mesg_id=2127870

I got both in my email

[bobbolink]

126. Thanks for those --great news. I'm grateful to those who keep

plugging away.

As I said, tho, the problem is the "deafness" in the Dem leadership. I will have my fingers crossed that you can get through to the pol you know, and have it slide through to Dean.

The fact that we know it is good, but not creating much change.

Maybe you can slide in a wakeup call. :hi:

[lonestarnot]

31. I watched Howard dean flip votes on a video. They know.

[bobbolink]

36. how....nice....

well, howie... whacha gonna do?

Let it slide?

sigh... :(

[Cookie wookie]

72. He's a big big ally of the election integrity movement

but can't do it all by himself, needless to say.

[LSK]

66. link to that here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhMUtzOxjJY

[lonestarnot]

84. Thanks for that link! I am new to posting comments there as of

today, so I left one!

[emcguffie]

96. It's not really messed up.

You just need to let it complete downloading before you play it.

If you pause it, and on the bar that indicates the progress, you see a little shadow going forward, then it is downloading. And if you wait until it downloads, and then play it, you won't have any audio problems.

[bobbolink]

125. Thanks, I think I said later that it was playing OK, but who knows

where that is buried. :)

It's a great video, and I'm sharing it with a lot of people.

:hi:

[PennyMan]

119. This Is Big !!! Kick Kick

[rzemanfl]

3. In the early morning hours of November 3, 2004 I asked myself

"What the fuck happened?" Now I know. These Diebold bastards all belong in prison.

[Straight Shooter]

44. You were on Democrat Underground the night of November 2, 2004?

We were all asking that question, like this ... :banghead:

[rzemanfl]

53. No, I arrived here later that month. I suffered through the night

alone and forlorn. Started smoking again that night (have quit again since).

[Straight Shooter]

61. I wish you had known about this forum.

I think because of that wretched night, a lot of us would have started smoking again, or worse, without Democratic Underground. We all watched as the tally flipped percentages, right before our eyes. It was surreal, like something out of the Twilight Zone.

Sorry you had to go through that alone. Definitely one of the worst nights we've ever been through, knowing that hell would continue to rampage through this country and the world for another 4 years.

Here's a belated hug from all of us, I'm sure. :hug:

[rzemanfl]

134. Me too. Didn't go to work the next day, sat home, smoked and

moped.

[emcguffie]

97. My introduction to DU was that night, or the next AM.

Can't remember which. I kind of thing wee hours of the am.

I remember staring at those exit poll charts that later disappeared.

[AndyA]

4. HOLY CRAP! Even easier than previous demonstrations have shown.

America must stop using these machines immediately.

There can be no accurate elections with them.

Thanks for posting helderheid!

K&R!

[momzno1]

6. this is why the Pukes are so smug about upcoming elections

This cannot be good....

[helderheid]

12. MY THOUGHTS EXACTLY.

[tom_paine]

15. Of course it's why

You'd be smug, too, if you knew you couldn't lose...zero percent chance.

[Cookie wookie]

76. Just think, they are sitting there fat evil greedy yet powerful

& rolling in the dough, killing people like crazy,
and laughing at the double entendre....

of overthrowing our democratic government
via a Trojan Horse - 21st century style

oh the repubs must be laughing a big har har

While the dems sit around supporting their own demise and coming up with strategies to be more like the repubs so they can win.

and the repubs laugh an even bigger har har
knowing that the dems can never win back control of the presidency & house no matter how much they try to make themselves either invisible, repub lite, kiss assers because

DUH, the voting machines are all rigged.

Edited for poor spelling!

[lonestarnot]

26. Yes it is without a doubt!

[StraightDope]

7. Yep. That's how the bastards stole the last election...

In my opinion, anyway.

[chat_noir]

8. Calls for a media blast, doesn't it?

Senators
Congressmen/women

Keith Olbermann
Lou Dobbs
Jon Stewart
Stephen Colbert

Needs to be submittted to You Tube with attention-catching keywords

[greenbriar]

10. Kicked and Recommended!!!

exactly!

[joeunderdog]

80. Here's a few more...

([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ) ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] ), ([e-mail] )

[wakeme2008]

9. That assumes an outside hacker is doing the vote rigging software

IMHO it would be more like Diebold own programmers :grr:

[lumberjack_jeff]

22. It just has to be one of 'em.

Dismissal of voting machine fraud has always been on the basis that it'd require a widespread, unsupportable conspiracy.

It only takes one guy.

[wakeme2008]

39. I was against Bev who only believed it could be done at the

Central processors and had people all over the country changing votes. Just not doable. And why with a Diebold patch to steal votes only a couple ppl at Diebold would have to know. And while this is talking about Diebold, the same holds true for the other Repug controlled makers.

[lonestarnot]

51. Just takes one!

[Tellurian]

14. Please Help!

Is this Optical Scan Voting?

[helderheid]

17. Touch screen

[Tellurian]

24. whew!

thanks, hh

fanning hanky..getting the vapors!

[GregD]

42. No, but OS is just as easy to hack

If you look at what Bev Harris and Harry Hursti did in Florida, it was the rigged PCMCIA card that allowed him to alter the election results.

[helderheid]

49. true that.

[grizmaster]

106. At least optical scans leave a paper ballot trail that can be recounted

Glad they use optical scan here in RI

[AwakeAtLast]

16. "24" could do a whole season on this

I can see Jack Bauer trying to find the people responsible for the malicious memory card. Then maybe people would realize it is possible! Sad, but most likely true!

[bobbolink]

18. So, can we volunteer to take these home for an overnight?

:evilgrin:

[alteredstate]

19. kicked

and nominated

[chat_noir]

20. You Tube: Someone needs to add this

If only I were computer/video savvy enough to do so...

Results of a search on Diebold: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Diebold

[helderheid]

21. I think I can do it - GREAT idea

[lonestarnot]

32. absolutely add! Why isn't it there yet?

[chat_noir]

34. Let us know so that we can rate it up

[helderheid]

52. had some technical difficulties but it appears to be uploading now

[helderheid]

68. here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2130741

[Joanne98]

107. I sent it to Keith O asking him to put in on tonight show.

[helderheid]

25. THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO DO BETWEEN NOW AND NOV

Get this video into EVERYONE'S HANDS.

[lonestarnot]

29. Post it to U Tube, Send a copy to Jon and Steven and Lou and Keith.

[helderheid]

63. On You Tube! RATE IT UP!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZws98jw67g

[lonestarnot]

79. rated and left some comments.

[vanboggie]

27. Confirmation

My hubby is a Computer Engineer. He surmised this was how they would do it. We know they could do it and therefore they did.

[lonestarnot]

33. Yes. My gut said so, election night 2004.

[bobbolink]

38. Ouch! That must have hurt.

I know.. wasn't funny. Me too neither.

[lonestarnot]

47. Made me fucking crazy!

[bobbolink]

128. I honestly don't think I've recovered from that. It was *that* painful.

After all I learned from the Vietnam era, and the treachery that exists in the "best" country in the world, I'm still staggered to find just how much rottenness is buried here. I know the craziness you're talking about.

I don't know what the answer is to that.

Just taking time to smell the roses, I guess.

sigh.....~~enter flower emoticon here~~

[bobbolink]

30. This is what I've been hoping for... now the big announcement...

HACKERS announcing they will infiltrate, and hack in the Dem's favor!

That's the only thing that will get the RW to take any note.

[lonestarnot]

35. Well hurry them the hell up!

[bobbolink]

37. Hey, I'm building the fires as quickly as I can!!

:evilgrin: :hippie: :evilgrin:

[lonestarnot]

43. I'm emailing the link to KPHO the only half way decent local

news in Phoenix.

[bobbolink]

127. Any results from that??

Any hope for taking over the station?

:rofl:

[Cookie wookie]

74. For some reason, all the black hat hackers must be

repubs. It sure looks that way if we go by the results of electronic voting we've had since the machines were first installed in GA and then began spreading around the country. If dems were black hats, we'd have congress already.

[lonestarnot]

81. Do a search for diebold history here. You will see why the black

hatters were repiglicans. Check the connections between Diebold who made the deals to purchase them originally and why.

[Cookie wookie]

92. Repiglicans -- I like that.

Diebold made the deals to purchase "them." What "them"? I'd say I'm pretty familiar with the history of Diebold and evoting, but don't know what you're referring to. Enlighten please.

[madmusic]

41. K&R

[Patsy Stone]

45. K&R!

Don't let them steal it EVER again!

[mnhtnbb]

46. No wonder GWB has a perpetual smirk on his chimpy face.

[flyarm]

48. CLINT CURTIS DOES A SMAPLE WITH SEQUOIA AND IT IS EVEN EASIER!!

IT IS MUCH EASIER..

and remember all the states and counties that allow sleep overs of the machines at pollworkers homes..

SAN DIEGO HAD SLEEPOVERS, and in Fla Duvall county just had sleepovers in the primaries.

fly

[lonestarnot]

50. what is a smaple?

[flyarm]

91. opps ...sample.....lol...n/t

[helderheid]

55. And just like a STD, it spreads to the other machines

[helderheid]

54. I think I've got the video uploading to YouTube

[lonestarnot]

82. I'm glad you did, because I tried and I don't. LOL Thanks for

all you do friend!

[Ellipsis]

56. K&R

[annabanana]

57. Here is a youtube link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL7w92X6Dv0

[texasleo]

58. you may wanna work on the title

but thanks

:)

[Booster]

60. Thanks for the link. Now, everybody go there and vote this thing

up, and send to everyone on your email lists. People have got to know about this and the sooner the better.

[mnhtnbb]

64. Done

[lonestarnot]

83. done done done!

[Spiffarino]

94. Beerguts are hacking the vote

Looks like it's being freeped. Rating about a two right now. I fived it, but it needs more help.

[leftchick]

59. Why Haven't The Democrats Been All Over This Issue???

:argh:

[Cookie wookie]

73. Because they support electronic voting

remember the DNC just got through recommending internet voting and DREs.

In the states some of the fiercest allies for paperless electronic voting have been Democrats. In GA and Maryland in particular, where the Diebold TS machines tested in the Princeton research are used.

[leftchick]

100. I know that

cutting their noses off, they are! :argh:

I wonder if Cathy Cox ex-SoS for GA is now working for Diebold?

:grr:

[helderheid]

62. ON YOUTUBE HERE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZws98jw67g

[helderheid]

65. Also on Google video

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2130741

[mnhtnbb]

67. It's now up with two different links and titles.

[wiggs]

111. Don't forget Clint Curtis was asked to develop vote stealing software

BY A CONGRESSMAN...criteria was that it couldn't be detected.

Also remember that in Ohio in 04 a Diebold rep made some maintenance visits to machines just before a recount.

[helderheid]

69. NEW THREAD - please keep kicked and rec'd

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2130741

[In Truth We Trust]

70. Paper ballots and Hand counts NOW!!!

[helderheid]

71. Please rate this NEW thread up:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2130741

[In Truth We Trust]

78. k&r for truth

[KatieB]

77. But video shows paper ballots are useless - need old punch machines

Not those that can be breached and abucted with memory cards.

[malaise]

75. This and Freeman's paper are all

the proof required for how 2004 was stolen. This is massive.

[Tiggeroshii]

85. K\R nt

[GETPLANING]

86. H A V A = Hijack America's Vote Act

F****rs

[boolean]

87. KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK KICK

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And keep on kicking until every single human being with access to the internet has seen it.

[helderheid]

90. Kick THIS OTHER thread, please!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2130741

[boolean]

88. KICK! Everyone just keep on kicking this.

No seriously guys, just keep this motherfucker at the top of the page for a good long while. Until election day would be optimal. The entire fucking country needs to see this. Someone get it to Olbermann.

[SammyWinstonJack]

89. So why don't our democratic leaders pay attention to this?

:shrug:

[jayfish]

93. digg It Up, Here.

http://www.digg.com/politics/Video_demonstration_of_Diebold_voting_machine_hack\

When your done, digg these as well:

http://www.digg.com/politics/Hack_the_vote_No_problem
http://www.digg.com/politics/Princeton_Professor_Hacks_into_E_Voting_machine
http://www.digg.com/security/Diebold_voting_machine_virus_demonstrated
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/Researchers_Extremely_Serious_Vulnerabilities_in_US_e_Voting_Machines



As many people need to see this as possible and it doesn't take a whole lot of diggs to make the front page. DO IT!



Jay

[lonestarnot]

98. Thanks jayfish!

Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. told Republicans in a fund-raising letter

he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

Remember O'Dell?

[jayfish]

103. Well Done DUers,...

if that was you. The story went from 23 diggs to 278 overnight. People are always looking, fruitlessly, for ways to involve youth in the process. This is one of the ways to tap that demographic.

Jay

ON EDIT: Three of the linked stories are now on the front page. :toast:

[emmadoggy]

95. Damn! K & R.

:argh:

[Canuckistanian]

99. Very telling

However, I wouldn't want to present this in court. The video is jerky, almost like a series of pictures. Things disappear and reappear again.

That said, this is very instructive to people who don't understand technology.

It's very easy to cover up malware because it can be made virtually invisible and most people don't understand that what's on that screen may have nothing to do with the actual functioning of the program.

Or even that the program can function perfectly legitimately, but the results (data) could be corrupted after the fact.

Without clear safeguards, crystal-clear traceability and a bulletproof security protocol, almost anything could happen.

And some say it already has.

[jayfish]

101. Kick -NT-

Jay

[goodboy]

102. Kicking it for Andy...(nt)

[Joanne98]

104. All I'm getting is audio and a picture of the machine?

I'm clicking on the video but it's not working?

[jayfish]

105. Try One Of The "You Tube" Links Posted Above. -NT-

Jay

[Joanne98]

108. Thanx.

[jayfish]

114. Your Welcome.

Stealth kick.

Jay

[BlueJac]

109. Here we go again........

WTF is going on in this country??

[AzDar]

110. Jeebus help us.... n/t

[LynzM]

112. Passed on to many members of my email list

Thanks for the link. This is crucial. K&R.

[Land Shark]

113. Kickity kick kick kick one for the ages, a keeper link n/t

[bluhoodie]

115. K & R /nt

[glitch]

116. K & R nt

[bdamomma]

117. watching this was disturbing that is what exactly happened

in 2004, they screwed with the Democratic Presidential candidate, and us.

[boolean]

118. Has this been posted to FARK.com?

How about youtube?

I've already sent it to everyone on my email list.

Oh yeah, and KICK!

[Up2Late]

120. Yup, that's the machine they used here to steal the 2002, 2004, and now

...the 2006 elections in Georgia. :banghead: :mad:

[StrictlyRockers]

121. OH my GOD is right. This is big. We always suspected Diebold machines.

Now we have our proof. These machines are compromised, tainted. I would not even consider voting on a Dieblod machine.

SR

[We_R_da_Future_1986]

122. THE DAILY SHOW

if any of you can figure out the daily show with John Stewarts email address you should send him this link and ask him to play it on his show!!

[helderheid]

123. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[garybeck]

124. But the real problem STILL is....

yes, it's true someone could crack open a machine and swap the memory card.

BUT I wish they would mention in this video, that the FOLKS AT DIEBOLD could put malicious software on the memory cards to begin with. election results could be rigged, right under the noses of election officials and they would have no way to know.

Outsiders. Insiders. both are threats, but it is much easier and more likely that an INSIDER would do this, because they know how the system works, they wrote the software, they have access to the machines and the cards.

[KansDem]

130. Plus Diebold has hired convicted felons in the past...

SAN FRANCISCO -- At least five convicted felons secured management positions at a manufacturer of electronic voting machines, according to critics demanding more stringent background checks for people responsible for voting machine software.

Voter advocate Bev Harris alleged Tuesday that managers of a subsidiary of Diebold, one of the country's largest voting equipment vendors, included a cocaine trafficker, a man who conducted fraudulent stock transactions and a programmer jailed for falsifying computer records.

The programmer, Jeffrey Dean, wrote and maintained proprietary code used to count hundreds of thousands of votes as senior vice president of Global Election Systems, or GES. Diebold purchased GES in January 2002.

According to a public court document released before GES hired him, Dean served time in a Washington state correctional facility for stealing money and tampering with computer files in a scheme that "involved a high degree of sophistication and planning."

--more--

http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html

[lonestarnot]

129. kicking before a break

[Cornerstone]

131. Nuff' said!

:argh:

[bamacrat]

132. Makes sense, but damn is the video boring.

buffers wierd too.

[jarnocan]

133. RR voting machine poll in case

http://www.rr.com/flash/index.cfm you missed it. relates