Hack into a Diebold machine with a smart card.....

[OneTwentyoNine]

http://www.tgdaily.com/2005/11/30/diebold-hackertest-postponed/

"Hursti has successfully hacked Diebold's security before and was able to get the machines to display, "Are We Having Fun Yet?" He did this by inserting a modified smart-card into the machine. While startling, it should be noted that physical access to the card slot would not be available to regular voters."

Yeah,but that slot would be available to about ANYONE who was working the election. Why was the test postponed,so Diebold could do a quick rig on one or two machines? Where the HELL are Dems on this crap?? Wringing their wrists as usual??

[Vickers]

1. "that slot would be available to...ANYONE who was working the election"

That right there is the key.

I'm not concerned about VOTERS rigging the election, I'm concerned about RW-controlled CORPORATE INTERESTS doing it.

[SoCalDem]

16. "regular" voters are NOT the problem..

It's the HACKS who are perpetrating the hacks, behind the scenes, or before elections even happen..

I am a luddite at computing, but even I know that it's possible to "fix" a program to deduct from one, and add to the other in a certain circumstance.. Grand totals would not be affected, but the winner/loser would definitely be affected..

[Nothing Without Hope]

2. kick - Hey- they have to make it easy for those GOP operatives! n/t

[loudsue]

3. The republicans have CONSISTENTLY hacked the voting machines..

after all, they are in the hands of republicans. ALL of the MAJOR voting machine companies ARE republican BIG DONORS!!

:kick::kick::kick:

[disndat]

13. Fight fire with fire

Dems should hack or create viruses into the e-voting machines and ruin their pollings until they do something serious about election fraud.

[Kelvin Mace]

4. Please check out current situation in NC

http://blackboxvoting.com/s9/index.php?/archives/25-Did-the-NC-board-of-elections-just-betray-NC-voters.html

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x2287518

[Al-CIAda]

5. .

[MissWaverly]

6. How about anyone wearing a tech's jumpsuit

and what if they fake credentials, how hard would that be, remember the fake FBI men in Ohio and the terror alert in Warren
County in 2004.

[FogerRox]

7. Diebold will not be picking the machine for the California test

Hursti hacked a DRE in the past-- the california test will be on a optical scanner.

[MissWaverly]

9. glad to hear that

[autorank]

8. Where are they? Ask Donna Brazile, Eric Holder, Howard Dean.

Brazile coordinated the DNC report and heads their voting rights group, Holder is the new guy (and with a great record) on election fraud issues, and Dean is Dean.

They're sitting this one out like they have all the others.

The troops are rebelling and new pols are raising quesitons quite directly.

The deadline is about7 months from now. Without a frontal assault on the whole Republican facade of fraud, we're toast...and I'm tired of being toast. It's well past pay back time, not to them but to Americans for having to tolerate this crap for five years.

Excellent post. Recommended.

[stickdog]

10. Isn't it high time to DEMAND our "representatives" to get

fucking serious about this shit?

Why is this a partisan issue? Who can actually be FOR insecure elections and easily alterable vote counts unless our democracy is already dead?

[Up2Late]

11. I hate to always having to be the logical skeptic, but what you link to

is very skimpy, where's the proof, when and where did this occur or how about some sort of evidence that this even too place? Were there any witnesses? What model of "Diebold's voting machine" was it?

I've voted on the Diebold AccuVote TS several times, and the idea that the "smartcard" slot is not available to the average voter is wrong, in fact, that's how you load the ballot TO vote. Until you load the smartcard, the machine doesn't do crap.

What you linked to here is 3 paragraphs on a blog page, WTF? :wtf:

Why the HELL would "the Dems" even give this a second of their time? You gotta come up with something better that this before anyone important will get excited about this, this isn't crap.

[The Doctor.]

12. Dammit people!....

If you want election reform, all you have to do is hack into the machines en masse and make sure to re-establish unprecedented 2006 democratic victories throughout the country...

The next thing you know, all the hypocritical morons that said the machines were fool-proof will be screaming foul at the top of their lungs.

You want change... play their game.

[disndat]

14. Yee-ess!

Exactly. An EN MASSE revolt!

[Up2Late]

15. I agree. If a Democrat were to win even one (1) election that...

...we were "not supposed to win," it could stat an avalanche, it might almost trigger a new U.S. Civil War, but it would be fun to watch their heads explode.

[peabody71]

17. Where are the Dems? Fucking- in office!

Hello. I know we are not all that naive.
You expect sitting politicians to disrupt the system that got them there?

[Higans]

18. The system that got them there is flawed.

I also agree with a previous post that said this should not be a partisan issue. Why are the Republicans against Voter Reform? Why are they against Accountability? the only conclusion that I can come to is that if they were held accountable for their actions, they would all be in Jail. I here that they have put Saddam Hussein on trial for killing about 200 people or so. what about the thousands of U.S. Troops and Iraqis that Bush has killed in this Illegal War. Didn't he say Mission Accomplished? Declare victory and leave why don't we? We the People were sold this War on the basis of WMD's. there are none, therefore, we Won. then we had to get Saddam Hussein. We got him, we won again. Do we really have to stay and kill the residents too? Chaney said we can't call them insurgents any more, and didn't know what to call them. How about "Residents"? is that so un-fathomable?