RIVERSIDE '1000 to 1' HACK CHALLENGE: CA County Official Gets Desperate! Makes Up New Rules!

[BradBlog]

California County Official Who Dared 'Hackers' to Manipulate Voting System Gets Desperate!
Sends Letter to Outgoing CA Sec. of State Attempting to Create New Conditions for Hack Test! Computer Security Experts Deride!
EXLUSIVE: Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone's Complete Letter to SoS Bruce McPherson

In a letter obtained by The BRAD BLOG, Riverside County, California Supervisor Jeff Stone attempts to move the goal posts concerning the ill-considered challenge he issued to Election Integrity advocates in December during a public, video taped meeting.

The letter, sent by Stone on Wednesday to outgoing California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson, attempts to unilaterally create unrealistic (some might say desperate) conditions for a proposed hack test of the county's electronic touch-screen voting machines, made by Sequoia Voting Systems. When Stone initially issued the challenge, he included no such ground rules.

Computer scientists and security experts interviewed by The BRAD BLOG, as well as a number of reports and studies from nationally-recognized bodies, understand what Stone apparently doesn't: the major threat to voting machine malfeasance comes not from a voter walking up to a voting system on Election Day, but rather from insiders who are easily able to gain unsupervised access to the machines...

COMPLETE REPORT, HILARIOUS LETTER FROM STONE,
COMMENTS FROM COMPUTER SECURITY EXPERTS IN REPLY:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3988

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Also today, earlier on The BRAD BLOG...

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5 Races in the U.S. House, Including FL-13, to be Contested, Rep. Holt Lauded by Several of the Challengers in Press Statements...
Two Media Releases Issued On the Conditional Seating of U.S. House Candidates

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3986

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Probation Given to Two GOP Operatives Found Guilty of Switching Democratic Voter Registration Forms to Republican

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3983

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[BradBlog]

1. Kickin it...

...Since I posted in the middle of the night and this likely got buried. But needs to be seen. The latest chapter in the Riverside Hack Challenge story is just amazing!

[helderheid]

2. rec 4en it!

[bleever]

3. The uprising continues...to gain traction.

:thumbsup:

[helderheid]

4. hey you!

I BELIEVE!!!

:loveya: :hi: :hug:

[bleever]

5. And YOU'RE RIGHT!

:hug: :toast: :hi:!

[tblue37]

6. I couldn't see what the new conditions were. What are they? (eom)

[BradBlog]

13. All spelled out in the original post at BRAD BLOG...

...Where the section of the letter with the made up "conditions" is highlighted, and the letter in full is at the end of the article.

[tblue37]

15. That's weird. When I first used the link it took me

to a white page with a lot of different articles on it, and I couldn't fidn the letter at all.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. I want them machines BANNED

PERIOD,

[Richard Steele]

8. Tests should be done under "real world" conditions- hackers take the machines home

Just like so many precincts let their poll workers
take the machines home for a few days before an election.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. You don't say

:sarcasm: you mean like the 50th district?

No, you are shitting me right?

:-)

:sarcasm:

[Wilms]

10. If Jeff Stone would have just read BradBlog he wouldn't be in this mess today.

It's his own fault.

[Stevepol]

11. K&R!!

BradBlog, your posts also need to be posted in the ERD Forum, for longevity's sake. Yours are the best posts on DU in my opinion.

[BradBlog]

14. Thanks for that, Stevepol, and...

Please feel free to crosspost elsewhere where ever needed, any time you like. I've got enough trouble just keeping up with all of the reporting, and then remembering to come over here to DU to shout out about it!

Appreciate whatever help you all can add to keep spreading the word and making noise about all of this!

[Gelliebeans]

12. I really hope

that Stone has to deal exclusively with Bowen since Bruce is leaving (Yay)

The whole bringing up the reach around the back ala yellow button must of been brought to Mr. Stone attention by one of his more blog savvy minions.

I think this clown should be held accountable by his words. If he is allowed to wiggle out of this, I will be so pissed. I want this idiot gone and this kind of incompetence is just the right situation that will highlight his less than stellar performance as supervisor or in Jeff's case "stupervisor".