Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Voting machine producers criticize critiques

  Published: July 31, 2007, 12:19 pm

  Tags: Diebold, E Voting, Evoting, Hacked, Hacker, Hart, Sequoia, Voting Machines, Votingmachines

  that alarming to hear that Diebold, Hart InterCivic, and Sequoia Voting Systems all had less-than-amicable responses to a state study that "found that their machines could be breached by hackers." Of course, we're not exactly sure what all that groaning is about, as we've seen nothing but proof to back the investigation up. Nevertheless,

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• Fresh study (still) finds Diebold e-voting machines hacker-friendly

  Published: August 2, 2007, 12:27 am

  Tags: Diebold, E Voting, Election, Evoting, Florida, Hacking, Vote, Voting

  any level of faith left in Diebold is quite baffling, but in case you were looking for just one more episode to dash your hopes of a hack-proof voting machine, open wide. As fate would have it, a fresh study in Florida has found that even optical scan voting systems "can be hacked into," which is causing quite a bit of concern considering that

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• California official gives ok to voting systems that failed security audit

  Published: August 5, 2007, 3:45 pm

  Tags: California, Diebold, E Voting

  those severely vulnerable Diebold, Hart, and Sequoia voting terminals would still be cleared for takeoff, provided the companies in question supply their machines with updated firmware, disabled access to unused ports, kill the wireless connections, and so on. So basically, the companies that deny up and down their voting systems are even

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• Stuffed ballot boxes at Internet speed

  Published: August 6, 2007, 9:35 pm

  Tags: Voting, Infoworld, Democracy, Diebold

  Now Diebold voting machines are vulnerable to viruses. If something really important were involved, say, dollars instead of the mere lifeblood of self-government, I'm sure Diebold would get something, anything right.Let's just leave our democracy lying out in plain sight and hope no one steals an election. Oh, crap, too late.

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• Diebold says e-voting sales have failed

  Published: August 17, 2007, 9:21 am

  Tags: 2008 Elections, 2008elections, Diebold, E Voting, E Voting, Election, Elections, Electronic Voting Machines, Electronicvotingmachines, Evoting, Hacking, Hacks, Voting

  AP article released today, Diebold, one of the prominent makers of the recently embattled electronic voting machines, says that the company has failed to make its e-voting business profitable. If you'll recall, Diebold machines have repeatedly been the target of various hacks, many of which have proven the machine to be susceptible to intrusion

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• Hacking.Democracy.WS.PDTV.XviD

  Published: September 8, 2007, 12:24 pm

  Tags: Documentary, Hbo, Election, Democracy, Pdtv, Hacking Democracy, Voting, Xvid, Security, Hacker, Hacking, Diebold

  industry, targeting the Diebold corporation."Hacking Democracy" uncovers incendiary evidence from the trash cans of Texas to the ballot boxes of Ohio, exposing secrecy, votes in the trash, hackable software and election officials rigging the presidential recount.Ultimately proving our votes can be stolen without a trace "Hacking Democracy"

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• Democrazy: OuijaVote 2008 Opens Door to Paranormal Democracy, Arguably Better than Diebold

  Published: October 25, 2007, 4:15 pm

  Tags: Boo, Democrazy, Diebold, Halloween, Jonathon, Keats, Omfg, Ouija, Ouija Vote 2008, Vote

  Or maybe not. Looking at the Diebold machines, it seems weirdly appealing and perhaps even much more exacting. [OuijaVote 2008]

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• Uncle Sam Wants to Know How You Feel About E-Voting Machines

  Published: October 31, 2007, 8:20 pm

  Tags: Random Stuff, Brief, Diebold, Electronic, Politics, Usa, Voting

  If you're not exactly down with the state of e-voting in the US (and you really shouldn't be), the Election Assistance Committee (a federal oversight committee that now has reign over certifying e-voting machines) wants to hear about it and what you think of their recently proposed guidelines (PDF, 600 pages).

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• San Francisco to hand-count Tuesday's vote [Politics]

  Published: November 5, 2007, 5:45 pm

  Tags: Diebold, Politics, San Francisco

  Disgraced machine maker Diebold has renamed itself to -- wait for it -- Premier Election Solutions.

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• Ohio report recommends scrapping electronic voting

  Published: December 17, 2007, 9:32 am

  Tags: Diebold, E Voting, Elections, Electronic Voting, Electronicvoting, Ohio, Touchscreen Voting Machines, Touchscreenvotingmachines, Voting

  of course, renamed Diebold -- and recommending that the 50 counties which use them scrap the machines in favor of a paper-trail-leaving optical scanning method. The report, commissioned by Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner, details the ways in which white hat hackers were able to infiltrate the systems, easily picking locks, using

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• Enough with the "Diebold Hacked the NH Primary" Lunacy

  Published: January 10, 2008, 12:34 am

  Tags: New Hampshire Primary, Diebold, Voting

  a paper trail.   The Diebold Accuvote-TS has been shown to be a piece of crap.  The Diebold Accuvote-OS, the machine used in New Hampshire, has much of the same hardware and runs much of the same tabulation software, so these machines could conceivably be hacked.  However, the incentive for hacking them is not very great,

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• SF Election 2007

  Published: November 12, 2007, 2:20 am

  Tags: Jimmy Eat World, Gavin Newsom, San Francisco Election 2007, Diebold

  When I made the arduous (20 yard) trek to my precinct's voting station earlier this week, I was greeted by this sign: How's that for San Francisco values? An American flag, surrounded by polling place announcements in 5 (!) different languages. And not a single rainbow flag or leather captain's hat in sight! To paraphrase the Jimmy Eat World

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• Hey, YOU!

  Published: November 3, 2006, 4:33 am

  Tags: Neoconservatives, George Bush, Apathy, Activism, Naacp, Rigged Election, Republican, Democrat, Fraud, Vote, Diebold

  voting machine manufacturer Diebold's CEO stating that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President" in 2004? Remember the disproportionate distribution of polling places, forcing voters in poor, Democratic leaning neighborhoods to wait so long in line that they had to abandon their mission and go back to their

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• NH Primary: Candidates want recount to explain Diebold/handcount discrepancies

  Published: January 12, 2008, 8:19 am

  Tags: Electronic Voting, News, Us Politics, Democratic Primary, Election, Elections, Hillary Clinton, Kucinich, President, Presidential Race, Barack Obama, Diebold, New Hampshire Primary

  ballot readers are made by Diebold, a company whose electronic voting machines have been the subject of considerable controversy over their accuracy, allegations of a discrepancy led to concern that the surprising results in Tuesday’s primary were somehow manipulated… The last time New Hampshire did a statewide recount of a

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• Life in the henhouse

  Published: March 2, 2008, 10:29 pm

  Tags: New York Times, Military, Voting, Michael J De La Merced, Diebold

  Put the military-industrial complex in charge of voting? I feel sooo much more secure.

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