" Was it 'conspiracy garbage' when the CA Sec. of State decertified federally-certified electronic voting and tabulation systems
made by Diebold, Sequoia and Hart Intercivic in 2007
after a state-commissioned team of computer science and security experts from
the University of California, Livermore National Laboratories and elsewhere
"demonstrated that the physical and technological security
mechanisms" for all of the state's electronic voting systems (also used
across the rest of the country) "were inadequate to ensure accuracy and
integrity of the elections results and of the systems that provide those
results" and that their "independent teams of analysts were able to bypass both physical and software security measures in every
system tested "?
" Was it 'conspiracy garbage' when the 2007 landmark study commissioned
by OH's then Democratic Sec. of State, found "Ohio's electronic voting systems
have 'critical security failures' which could impact the integrity of elections
in the Buckeye State" and when she (unsuccessfully) recommended, along
with the then Republican Speaker of the Senate, who is now the state's
Republican Sec. of State, that all touch-screen systems in the state be
decertified due to concerns of, as she told The BRAD BLOG , "viruses that
can be inserted into [Ohio's e-voting and tabulation] system through something
as simple as a PDA [Personal Digital Assistant] and a magnet and then the cards
are passed from machine to machine almost like Typhoid Mary" so that
"If there is malicious software, like a virus put into the system, it can
not only affect the machines at the polling places, it can affect the
tabulation that occurs at the server and it can also affect future elections if
it's not detected"?
" Was it 'conspiracy garbage' when the New York Daily News discovered in 2012
that hundreds of paper ballots at just one
precinct in the Bronx went uncounted in 2010 during
the September primary (failure rate of 70%) and the November general election
(failure rate of 54%) on their brand new ES&S DS200 paper ballot
optical-scanners, which are also used in OH, AZ, MI and elsewhere?
" Was it 'conspiracy' garbage when the U.S. Election Assistance
Commission (EAC) released a warning in 2011 from a "Formal Investigation
Report" that those same systems failed to count paper ballots correctly , on the
heels of Cuyahoga County (Cleveland), OH's previous finding that 10% of those machines failed during
pre-election testing in 2010 ?
" Was it 'conspiracy garbage' when Oakland County, MI wrote a
letter of concern to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), seeking
advice in 2008 after finding their ES&S M-100 optical scanners "yielded different results each time" the "same ballots
were run through the same machines" during
pre-election testing?
" Was it 'conspiracy garbage' when Princeton University discovered
in 2006 that they could, in seconds time, implant a virus onto Diebold
touch-screen systems used in dozens of states which could then spread itself
from machine to machine and result in an entire county's election being flipped with little chance of detection ?
" Was it 'conspiracy garbage' when a computer security expert
hacked a memory card on a Diebold paper ballot optical-scan system and flipped
the results of a mock election (see the hack and its results as captured in HBO's Emmy-nominated 2006 documentary Hacking
Democracy here ) in such a way that only a hand-count
of the paper ballots in the election could reveal the true results?
" Was it 'conspiracy garbage' when a CIA cybersecurity expert testified to the U.S. Election Assistance
Commission(EAC) in 2009 that e-voting was not secure,
"that computerized electoral systems can be manipulated at five stages,
from altering voter registration lists to posting results" and that
"wherever the vote becomes an electron and touches a computer, that's an
opportunity for a malicious actor potentially to...make bad things
happen"?
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