May 15, 2006 at 09:37:59

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E-VOTING TRAIN WRECK 2006: The Wheels Begin to Come Off

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Maryland Elections Administrator, Linda Lamone, an even more ardent Diebold supporter had this to say:

"We are taking steps." She said she is confident that the problem will have little effect in Maryland because of strict rules about who is permitted to handle voting machines in the state. "Everyone that has access to them has to undergo a criminal background check," she said.

From Utah we have Joe Demma, Chief of Staff in the Lieutenant Governor's Office who supports Diebold and has apparently supported removing the 23-year elected Bruce Funk from his job says:

"With whatever system you have, if you let the coyote into the henhouse, he's going to have dinner. It's the job of our county clerks, and they all do a good job, of not letting that happen."

All except Funk who found the problems in the first place, I presume?

And from Mark Radke, another Diebold 'talking-head' official and apologist who's been singing the same tired song for years as he's been pushing his company's faulty wares:

"The risk factor associated with electronic voting is far less than paper ballots. Paper ballots can be more easily altered than electronic votes which are encrypted and digitally signed for additional protection."

The lack of concern by these State Officials and Diebold Officials (the differences between the two are often very slight if any) and their attempts to minimize the situation stand in marked contrast to the comments of computer scientists across the country.

Michael I. Shamos, a professor of computer science at Carnegie Mellon University who is an examiner of electronic voting systems for Pennsylvania said:

"It's the most severe security flaw ever discovered in a voting system"

Douglas W. Jones, a professor of computer science at the University of Iowa says:

"This is the barn door being wide open, while people were arguing over the lock on the front door."

Avi Rubin, a Johns Hopkins University computer science professor had this to say:

"On a scale of one to 10, if the problems we found before were a six, this is a 10. It's a totally different ballgame."

And what of the questions that should be asked? Diebold has known about this huge hole in their security since they installed it. Why are they now claiming it was just discovered?
And why has the Election Assistance Commission had nothing to say about this security issue?

Hopefully these questions and more will be answered in the coming weeks and hopefully the corporate media will stick around for awhile and do their jobs. There is plenty of room for them.

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