Black Box Voting Report on Diebold Voting Machine Test

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The Hursti Hack, referred to as �the mother of all security holes� was first exposed in a formal report on July 4. (http://www.blackboxvoting.org/bbvreport.pdf).

Diebold has insisted to county and state election officials that despite Hursti's demonstration, changing votes on its memory cards is impossible. (Public records from Diebold, including threat letter to Ion Sancho:

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/2197/10535.html)

On Oct. 17, 2005 Diebold Elections Systems Research and Development chief Pat Green specifically told the Cuyahoga County (Ohio) board of elections during a $21 million purchasing session that votes cannot be changed using only a memory card. (Video of Pat Green: http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/2197/14298.html) Over the objections of Cuyahoga County citizens, and relying on the veracity of Diebold's statements, the board has chosen to purchase the machines.

According to Public Records obtained by Black Box Voting, Diebold has promulgated misrepresentations about both the Hursti Hack and another kind of hack by Dr. Herbert Thompson to secretaries of state, and to as many as 800 state and local elections officials.

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