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Chimp Can Hack Diebold Electronic Voting System

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the don't-say-we-didn't-warn-you dept.

rbuysse writes "A million monkeys can write Shakespeare, but it only takes one to mess up an election. Scoop here." Blackboxvoting is behind this demonstration; there's also a lengthy thread on the Bugtraq mailing list.

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  1. Video Mirror by chrispyman · · Score: 5, Informative

    Incase of the enevitable slashdotting, here's the movie of the chimp hacking the vote.

  2. Re:This story could make a liberal's head explode by cgranade · · Score: 5, Informative
    Who? Where? Please provide examples of a credible (ie. non-conspiracy theorist) source suggesting that Republicans might abuse a security hole.

    Try the US Civil Rights Commission. (Their report on the Florida electoral fraud is available here: http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/main.htm )

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  3. Re:This story could make a liberal's head explode by tajmorton · · Score: 5, Informative
    Who? Where? Please provide examples of a credible (ie. non-conspiracy theorist) source suggesting that Republicans might abuse a security hole.

    "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President next year."
    - Wally O'Dell, CEO Diebold

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  4. Re:This story could make a liberal's head explode by adiposity · · Score: 4, Informative


    Read This

    COLUMBUS - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

    The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election.

    It seems to me that someone who makes voting software shouldn't be promising to deliver votes, but maybe it's just me.

    -Dan

  5. Chimps can write News Articles, too... by Mulletproof · · Score: 4, Informative

    Their "evidence" of a chimp hacking diebold is a series of poorly cut images of a chimp and a computer????? Come the fuck on now... First, half of the minute video is useless filler text and a picture of smiling chimp, which immedietly jumps to a sequence that could have only been cut by an editor with suffering from ADD syndrome. Seriously, where's that foot icon, because there's no way you could possibly take this story seriously.

    But for the inveitable slashdotting it'll receive, I'll summerize: Makers say Diebold works, opponents say it doesn't, que poorly edited movie of monkey sitting by computer hitting stuff, analogous to the new "Baby hitting mouse" AOL 9.0 commercial. The End.

    Thank me, beecause I just saved you 5-10 minutes of your life. Use it to get a free ipod or something.

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  6. Re:for-profit voting systems by laird · · Score: 4, Informative

    "I think the system the grandparent was promoting was using public funds to create a public solution, which still requires buying/paying for tools from the private sector"

    Exactly. Please visit http://www.openvotingconsortion.org/. We're a consortium dedicated to creating an open source voting system. The idea, exactly as you propose, is that many commercial vendors can take the open source platform and package it with hardware, training, and so on. Or a particularly motivated (or cheap) organization could run their own election system using internal technical resources. :-) The project has been under active development for several years, and has produced a system that's been publicly demonstrated.

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