Vote Tabulator Security Hole Exposed

KingFish

A manipulation technique has been found in the Diebold central tabulator -- 1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two million votes at a time.

By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks. This program is not "stupidity" or sloppiness. It was designed and tested over a series of a dozen version adjustments.

Source: Black Box Voting

J

Interesting I was on the blackbox voting website when all of a sudden it was replaced with a notice "This account has been suspended. Please contact the billing/support department as soon as possible"

primesuspect

omg that sucks. Blackbox was up yesterday.

One thing that really piqued my curiousity was a comment on that site that (I'm paraphrasing here since the site is now down) "There are so many flaws in the diebold tabulator that it appears almost designed for vote tampering"

If you are in a county that uses the Diebold machines, I would highly recommend talking to your voting authorities about the security and reliability of these machines. It's very scary to me that these may be used in the upcoming presidential elections.

KingFish

I hope all the traffic we generated to their site didn't put them over their bandwidth quota. It was operational when I posted the link.

KingFish

Omega65

Didn't I post something along these lines about this a year ago.... US Election Fraud??

also from Kingfish: Calif. Whistleblowers Sue Diebold