in the dead flowers and the silent hours
May. 18th, 2004 03:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
satyricapoint the first: bastards, bastards, they're all bastards.
point the second: Emptiest. Red Eye. Ever.
point the third: still fun, though :-)
point the fourth: am officialy immune to purple: you could drown me in a vat of the stuff and I'd die sober.
point the fifth: Dunno about you but I'm expecting voting machine co. stock to double.
point the sixth: see y'all in four hours...
point the second: Emptiest. Red Eye. Ever.
point the third: still fun, though :-)
point the fourth: am officialy immune to purple: you could drown me in a vat of the stuff and I'd die sober.
point the fifth: Dunno about you but I'm expecting voting machine co. stock to double.
point the sixth: see y'all in four hours...
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Date: 2004-05-18 12:25 am (UTC)Maybe it is ribena in disguise!
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Date: 2004-05-18 05:59 am (UTC)Voting Machines
Date: 2004-05-18 10:15 am (UTC)California has just banned them after some electoral improprieties
- decertifying the TSx machine because of the notable differences between the number of votes cast and the number of eligible voters
(that's appalling: a real election was held, and more votes were cast than voters existed... think about the non-attendence rate, and truly panic!). In April, Kevin Shelley (California's Secretary of State) followed advice and said that no machine which did not establish a parallel paper trail would be forbidden in the November elections. This makes the system checkable against hardcopy evidence, but means that the original paper system is more efficient (as well as being
inherently more secure).
Diebold have been rapped over the knuckles a number of times for lying about software capabilities and security... and Channel 4 News showed somebody hacking one - three weeks before they showed someone with a laptop downloading the complete address files from strangers' Bluetooth phones (they asked said strangers before actually commencing, having previously sniffed for vulnerable units). The hacks aren't restricted to people coding at the machines themselves - it's possible to disrupt data sent out from the polling station over the comms line.
Diebold have also been ticked off because in several polling stations (again, in a real election) weren't up and running when the polls opened, and voters had to be turned away, or ended up having to go to work before the machines were up to their job. An audit discovered that all 17 California counties' machines were running uncertified software - which Diebold admitted to the Voting Systems Panel.
Diebold's own memos listing vulnerabilities which they had not admitted to auditors make excellent reading, and are available all over the WWW despite the company's best legal efforts to suppress them.
Ohio's Secretary of State (Kenneth Blackwell) has suspended all voting machines - including those of naughty Diebold's rivals ES&S, Hart, and Sequoia systems as of the end of 2003, because they were all vulnerable when tested by security experts.
Investing in these things strikes me as like investing in tobacco just before the first health lawsuits were brought...
Re: Voting Machines
Date: 2004-05-18 12:42 pm (UTC)