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UCSB Security Group's Attack on Voting Machines (Part 2 of 2

2008-09-09T15:17:42Z

Why electronic voting machines (especially so the "touch-screen" type made infamous in recent years) cannot be trusted as credible in Indecision 2008.

BoingBoing.net elaborates:

Max sez,
The Security Group at the University of California in Santa Barbara has released the video that shows the attacks carried out against the Sequoia voting system. I heard about the video when talking to some members of the group, but it was never made available to the public before. The video was shot as part of the Top-To-Bottom Review organized by the California Secretary of State. Even though the review was carried our in July 2007, the video has been posted only now, more than a year after (why?).
The video shows an attack where a virus-like software spreads across the voting system. The coolest part of the video is the one that shows how the "brainwashed" voting terminals can use different techniques to change the votes even when a paper audit trail is used. Pretty scary stuff. The video is proof that these types of attacks are indeed feasible and not just a conspiracy theory.
Also, the part that shows how the "tamperproof" seals can be completely bypassed is very funny (and disturbing at the same time).

Moral: If your state insists on using technologically-flawed touch-screen voting machines in the November elections, and if the election laws permit, ask for, and vote by, absentee ballot. And in the meantime, ask the relevant election officials to see these videos; hopefully, such will convince them to decertify such flawed voting technology as undermines electoral purity and integrity, and switch back to traditional hand-marked ballot papers.

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UCSB Security Group's Attack on Voting Machines (Part1 of 2)

2008-09-09T15:15:42Z

Why electronic voting machines (especially so the "touch-screen" type made infamous in recent years) cannot be trusted as credible in Indecision 2008.

BoingBoing.net elaborates:

Max sez,
The Security Group at the University of California in Santa Barbara has released the video that shows the attacks carried out against the Sequoia voting system. I heard about the video when talking to some members of the group, but it was never made available to the public before. The video was shot as part of the Top-To-Bottom Review organized by the California Secretary of State. Even though the review was carried our in July 2007, the video has been posted only now, more than a year after (why?).
The video shows an attack where a virus-like software spreads across the voting system. The coolest part of the video is the one that shows how the "brainwashed" voting terminals can use different techniques to change the votes even when a paper audit trail is used. Pretty scary stuff. The video is proof that these types of attacks are indeed feasible and not just a conspiracy theory.
Also, the part that shows how the "tamperproof" seals can be completely bypassed is very funny (and disturbing at the same time).

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Electronic Voting Machines and the 2008 Election

2008-08-31T19:24:41Z

Complete video at: fora.tv

Former Chairman of the Federal Election Commission Trevor Potter discusses concerns and controversies over electronic voting machines in the run-up to the 2008 Presidential election.

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Norman Ornstein discusses The Election System in America with Trevor Potter, as a part of Restoring Legitimacy to Our Election System during the 2008 Chautauqua Institution morning lecture series.

Trevor Potter is a member in Caplin & Drysdale's Washington, D.C. office, where he leads the firm's Political Activity Law Practice. He is one of the country's best-known and most experienced campaign and election lawyers, and a former Commissioner (1991-1995) and Chairman (1994) of the Federal Election Commission.

He currently serves as General Counsel to the John McCain 2008 campaign and held that position with the McCain 2000 campaign. He was also Deputy General Counsel of the Bush 1988 campaign. Mr. Potter is the founding President and General Counsel of the Campaign Legal Center, a Washington, D.C. based nonprofit which assisted in the legal defense of the McCain-Feingold law on behalf of the Congressional sponsors. He is currently on leave from that position.

Mr. Potter is also a non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He has published several books and articles in the field, including: Political Activity, Lobbying Laws and Gift Rules Guide (West Publishing, Third Edition 2008, Second Edition 1999); The New Campaign Finance Sourcebook, Brookings Institution, 2005; Federal Election Law and the Internet, Brookings Institution, 2000; and The Campaign Finance Sourcebook, Brookings Institution, 1997 ; and He is a frequent guest speaker at a variety of professional meetings, has testified before Congress on federal election proposals and campaign finance regulation, and has taught campaign finance law at the University of Virginia School of Law and Oxford University. He is Chair of the Election Law Committee of the American Bar Association's Administrative Law Section, and liaison to the Standing Committee on Election Law of the ABA.

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Electronic Elections: Vote Fraud in the 21st Century

2008-10-11T13:12:39Z

http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Electronic_Elections_Vote_Fraud_in_the_21st_Century

*All footage contained in this film constitutes 'fair use' of copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material is distributed without profit for research and educational purposes.*

"Electronic Elections: Vote Fraud in the 21st Century" is a short-format viral video is designed to draw attention to one of the many urgent problems surrounding our modern voting system - the clear and present danger of electronic vote fraud.

Intended as both an introduction to the subject and a call to action, "Electronic Elections" contains clips from the following documentaries::

Uncounted
http://uncountedthemovie.com/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2053171972904749134

Hacking Democracy
http://www.hackingdemocracy.com/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4463776866669054201

American Blackout
http://www.americanblackout.org/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5965670944815984616

Invisible Ballots
http://invisibleballots.com/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3875476549496397083

America: Freedom to Fascism
http://www.freedomtofascism.com/
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1656880303867390173

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Disturbing Info Continues To Come Out On Voting Procedures/Counting

2008-06-09T09:37:03Z

Many people may not know that our old friends Diebold were involved in the counting of New Hampshire ballots:

What's going on here? Before proceeding, I recommend you read the third section of the post I just ran an hour or so ago, concerning the way the ballots are counted in New Hampshire, largely on Diebold optical-scan voting systems, wholly controlled and programmed by a very very bad company named LHS Associates.
Those Diebold op-scan machines are the exact same ones that were hacked in the HBO documentary, Hacking Democracy. See the previous report, as I recommend, which also includes a video of that hack, and footage of the guy who runs LHS Associates.

I am not suggesting anything here. But Jesus, is it too much to ask that when you vote in a democracy, you have confidence in the results? In many states either completely or partially controlled by Democrats, they are allowing this kind of corporate unacountability to continue. It is a disgrace.

One man, a contractor named John Silvestro, will have unbelievable control over the process in states such as Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts. So if any of these three reliably blue states go red in November, you'll know why....just watch the video.

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Voter Con Act - Don't Be Fooled By Holt Bill

2008-06-17T03:32:15Z

HR811 only requires paper records - toilet paper rolls... not ballots!

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MASHUP: Hack Challenge or Hacks

2008-06-09T03:31:12Z

A mashup revisiting the shady Riverside County supervisors and their suspect actions and comments regarding e-voting machines. With super-citizen Tom Courbat and computer expert Hack'n Harri Hursti leading the fight to defend our democracy.

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