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September 3, 2006 at 10:42:47

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Four minutes to penetrate voting machine security seals! Just how secure did you say your elections are?

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By Black Box Voting, Posted by Joan Brunwasser (about the submitter)     Page 2 of 3 page(s)

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See the plastic seal: This plastic seal was used by King County. It had been broken and discarded, so we used the high-tech method of putting an orange rubber band on it to hold it together for this demo. The seal is pointless anyway, as you'll soon see.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-screws.jpg

See the screws holding the Diebold AccuVote optical scan machine together: There are five. We tried a Phillips-head screwdriver on the thing.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-unscrew-case.jpg


See the screws come out: What's inside?

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-card-unfasten.jpg

See the left-side bolt. Can you remove it? We stuck a small Allen wrench into the bolt.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-door-inside-nut.jpg

See that nut on the screw: (Red arrow) We got out a pair of pliers.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-remove-memorycard-door.jpg

Is it possible that Diebold does not know this??? Grasp nut with pliers, twirl Allen wrench and see what happens.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-card-seal-cracked.jpg

See the bolt come off. But can you get the memory card out?

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-card-opened.jpg

See the metal door pivot to the right: Remove the memory card.

http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-card-out.jpg

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"Tamper-Evident Seals" are worthless. by Mark E. Smith on Sunday, Sep 3, 2006 at 2:50:46 PM
No sleepovers! by Mark E. Smith on Sunday, Sep 3, 2006 at 3:01:50 PM

 
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