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More Diebold E-Voting Vulnerabilities

Posted by timothy on from the good-to-get-the-counties-involved dept.

presmike writes "ok, it looks like Diebold has more to worry about now that it is possible to change votes with a 5 line VB script. 'The vulnerabilities involve the Global Election Management System, or GEMS, software that runs on a county's server and tallies votes after they come in from Diebold touch-screen and optical-scan machines in polling places.'"

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  1. Re:Blimey by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Informative

    vbs script running in the background, well, they don't say it but it seems obvious that GEMS is running in Windows, the most breakable OS in the world.

    It's worse than that. From this link:

    She has no way of knowing that her GEMS program is using multiple sets of books, because the GEMS interface draws its data from an Access database, which is hidden.

    Getting a warm and fuzzy feeling yet?

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  2. Re:Amazing by Kenja · · Score: 5, Informative

    Given that the ATMs run unpatched Windows XP and have in the past been hit by internet worms I fail to see whats so shocking about any of this. I will not use a Diebold ATM, even if that means I dont eat lunch because there's no other source for cash handy.

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  3. Re:Amazing by AKAImBatman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, the Diebold machines were partly responsible for the 2000 election fiasco.

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  4. obligitory plug for blackboxvoting.org by dogas · · Score: 5, Informative

    black box voting has 5 (!) different demonstrations on how easy it is to hack these things. There is also an online book (in PDF format) all about how bad the situation really is.

    This is serious. Not only are they using a microsoft access (!!) database to store your vote, they are using a non-password protected access database.

    Not only are they using a non-password protected access database, you can gain access to the .mdb by hitting a certain key on the touch screen and manipulating at will. Are we living in crazy world?

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  5. Brazil's Voting System by gihara · · Score: 5, Informative

    Why not simply license Brazil's Voting System? I am working as a volunteer in Brazil's city elections this years. The machines are simple and reliable, here are the specs. CPU: Geode National - 200 MHz. RAM: 64mb on board. 2 USB and 1 parallel on board. IDE and Floppy interface. 2 30mb flash disks - one for program and the other for the results. 1 floppy disk drive - sadly that's how we deliver the votes... but its quite error free because the votes are also printed. and theres also the flash disk. 9,4" LCD Here's the new model http://www.procomp.com.br/projesp.asp The only real bug in Brazil's votting system is the elector heehe... We elected a drunk last election for president... well... better than Bush... but still a drunk... ehehee