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HBO's Hacking Democracy Available Online
prostoalex writes "HBO's controversial special 'Hacking Democracy' on issues with Diebold voting machines is now available in full on Google Video." Covered earlier on Slashdot, the documentary seems to have gathered quite a bit of heat from Diebold in addition to the one that didn't air.
Which documentary didn't air? Why not, did HBO not air something because of diebold?
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Fact is an affirmative defense to libel.
To determine facts there is a legal process known as "discovery." I don't imagine that Diebold is going to be in much of a hurry to go there; hissy fits are their stock in trade.
Just as it is for all abusive control freaks.
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The coder managed to get around the security by using SQL injection. It boggles my mind that you can do that.
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I live in a suburb of Toronto and we have our municipal elections tomorrow. I voted early on Saturday and I noticed my vote got counted on a Diebold machine. All previous elections we wrote an "X" in a circle and they were hand-counted - this time it was electronically counted.
1 324237&from=rss) really pissed me off.
I asked the elections official how did they know my vote was counted. Her response was, (as she pointed to a small LCD display), "this counter here says how many votes this machine processed." I asked her how does she know it was counted *CORRECTLY* she made the mistake of saying "we're pretty sure it's correct."
At this point I demanded to know how "pretty sure" she was. Her defense was "there's a paper trail incase of an error" - a fairly valid defense. I proceeded to point to two electronic Diebold machines, the 6" thick ones with an LCD screen, and asked her "what about those?" She told me in a very matter of fact way that there's a paper trail for those too.
I asked her where the printer was, and if she ever actually say a printer. It was at this point that she no longer wanted to talk to me and kinda laughed me off as some sort of conspiracy wackjob.
The fact that we used these machines after their utter failure in larger US elections pissed me off, but the fact that they FAILED in CANADA, just one province over (http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/10/25/
I wanted to argue with her further but had no hard references memorized, essentially making my argument invalid. I did a bit of research from the usual sources (http://www.blackboxvoting.org), but I was really hoping to see this documentary before the elections tomorrow.
I encourage all Canadians voting in municipal elections tomorrow to make your feelings about e-voting (especially on Diebold machines) known to the organizers, and write your MPs and MPPs to tell them that e-voting is not acceptable.
This is a great sworn testimony by a programmer named Clinton Curtis that talks about the hackability of the machines. Eak.
Flawless? Ha!
I had a friend who worked in that software arena. Said they usually tested their new software on ATM's located inside the bank so they could catch any egregrious errors. You know if people start shouting YAHOO when it spits out too much money, or a long line with repeated customers, it will get noticed.
In general, their comment was that if you knew half the sloppiness present in banking you'd keep your money in jars.
I would hope the machines would format any card at the start of an election and then write the encrypted count totals to the card and nothing else except a checksum and the machine ID number.
What is so mindblowing about this is the question why this very simple thing cannot being done, and the fact that the diebold engineers lied about the cards on tape.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
This is definitely a year for the lesser-of-two evils: all we've got is a choice between evil and incompetent, so if you ask me incompetence is the best pick.
Overall, I disagree with your assessment of the American political character. If you did down into people's attitudes about issues, you find that they're a lot more "liberal" than you would think, even when they vote Republican.
After the 2004 election there was an interesting poll that showed that the people who voted for George Bush actually didn't understand his position on a lot of issues, whereas the people who "voted against him" had a more accurate grasp of these things. Just as an example, most people want the government to Do Something about global warming, and had trouble believing Bush was against the Kyoto accord.
'Dieb' means 'thief' in German, so could say that you're getting exactly what the name promises. Isn't that comforting?
Most congressional districts are so gerrymandered that there are only a handful of seats that are truly in competition.
There is only so much hacking of votes one could do without it being obvious, in this election.
The few districts that have actual competition is where I'd watch out for.
If you really want to show your discontent with how corrupt the system is: Vote Libertarian.
The best part is, you can point out how corrupt both parties are and go away with a clean conscience.
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