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Diebold Disks May Have Been For Testers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the concientious-tester dept.

opencity writes "The Washington Post reports on the two Diebold source disks that were anonymously sent to a Maryland election official this past week. Further investigation has lead individuals involved to believe the disks came from a security check demanded by the Maryland legislature sometime in 2003." From the article: "Critics of electronic voting said the most recent incident in Maryland casts doubt on Lamone's claim that Maryland has the nation's most secure voting system. "There now may be numerous copies of the Diebold software floating around in unauthorized hands," said Linda Schade, co-founder of TrueVoteMD, which has pressed for a system that provides a verifiable paper record of each vote."

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  1. These are the disks we returned to the state by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    I was one of the RABA testers. We discussed this today and we returned the disks to the testers. The leaks came from Linda Lamone's OWN OFFICE!

  2. Re:New tag by bunions · · Score: 3, Informative

    The tagging system is a joke. 90% of all tags are either words in the article title, or one or more of "fud, notfud, yes, no, maybe."

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  3. Diebold machines aren't designed to be secure by nephridium · · Score: 3, Informative

    Back in 2004 computer programmer Clint Curtis testified under oath that he had been asked by a congressman to write software that would make it possible to rig elections. He quite blandly states that "anyone" (with the expertise) could write software to rig elections, because the system has not been secured in any way.

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    And when you gaze long enough into the code, the code will also gaze into you.
  4. Slight correction by TubeSteak · · Score: 3, Informative
    Kagan did the right thing, which was to contact the state elections officials, who in turn contacted the FBI, who went and talked to Kagan.
    I went back and looked at the original Baltimore Sun story

    The Baltimore sun says that "Kagan called the attorney general's office, and word of the disks began to spread. Learning of the development, Linda H. Lamone, the state's elections chief, reported Kagan's possession of the code to the FBI yesterday [Oct 19]."

    Which only reinforces my point, since
    Attorney General > State Election Chief
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