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Open your Diebold AccuVote-TS with a minibar key

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Posted by Steve White 2006-09-19 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Something so important as an electronic voting machine should have its own special and unique keyed lock, unlike any other mechanism in the industry. This is incompetence writ large.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-19 04:06|| 2006-09-19 04:06|| Front Page Top

#2 How about a big magnet?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2006-09-19 06:54|| 2006-09-19 06:54|| Front Page Top

#3 Only allowed in big (read Democratic) cities, NS.

Posted by Bobby 2006-09-19 07:05|| 2006-09-19 07:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Paper with an ink print box for your finger mark for future Washington State authentication requirements. Let's go for the middle index finger for the marker.

Posted by Snineger Spavitle5395 2006-09-19 09:17|| 2006-09-19 09:17|| Front Page Top

#5 As any tech person will tell you: One you have procession all bets are off. I bet there are a multitude of implements that will open a Diebold machine. I would also concede that there are many MANY ways to reprogram the machine to count votes in a funny manner. Prior to the machines it would have been all too easy (See San Francisco, Chicago, et al) to stuff paper ballots with the proper votes. Also without having to produce an ID in some states a person can vote multiple times in different precincts. But wasnt it the LLL Mo0b@+5 that whined about not having these machines after the 2000 elections? I have come to the conclusion that since their (Democrats) ability to cheat has diminished, and they are losing elections, maybe they are trying to turn back the clock so they can cheat and win again?

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-09-19 11:10|| 2006-09-19 11:10|| Front Page Top

#6 The whole thing about fraud with these machines is bogus.

When I was living in Connecticut, we were using lever operated gear driven voting machines. They were 50+ years old and they hadn't even made spare parts for 20 years. Occasionally the gears would slip and your vote would be changed and there would be no record of it.

Nobody complained about that. Instead they complained about hanging chads in Florida in a system that wasn't broken.

You can tamper and reprogram these computerized machines, but there will be a record left behind. If the the code is altered, the load module will be slightly different than the baseline, and you can immediately tell which machines were affected.

I do think we should create a hard copy of the votes, so we can recreate the correct result with the unaltered software.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al">Frozen Al 2006-09-19 14:49|| 2006-09-19 14:49|| Front Page Top

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