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Diebold Patch May Be Evidence of '02 Election Tampering

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-can-trust-us dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Stephen Spoonamore, founder of IT security firm Cybrinth and former advisor to John McCain, claims he has new evidence of election tampering by Diebold in the 2002 Georgia gubernatorial and senate races. A whistleblower gave Spoonamore a patch that was applied to Diebold machines in person by the Diebold CEO. Spoonamore confirmed that the patch did not correct the clock problem it supposedly addressed, but contained two parallel programs. Without access to the hardware, he could not learn more. He reported his findings to the Justice Department, which has not acted."

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  1. Manipulating elections another way by buswolley · · Score: 1, Troll

    McCain might also have tried to manipulate elections an old fashioned today by commenting on the probable timing of Obama's arrival in Iraq.

    This is obviously a major security issue for Obama, and shows us why McCain should not be president.

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKN1830368120080718

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    1. Re:Manipulating elections another way by megaditto · · Score: -1, Troll

      Well, let's stop for a moment and ask ourselves: would would Iraqi insurgents like to see become the next US president? Obama or McCain? Now isn't that interesting...

      My point is, Obama should feel pretty safe in Iraq.

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    2. Re:Manipulating elections another way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Well if you want to surrender Mccain's your man. He's got experience.

    3. Re:Manipulating elections another way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You may as well have said that he would be safe from everybody except extremist Muslims. And that in itself is reason not to vote for him. They WANT him to be elected because he will roll over and do anything they want, all in the name of peaceful relations, of course. If we talk while our enemy fights, we lose.

    4. Re:Manipulating elections another way by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Well, let's stop for a moment and ask ourselves: would would Iraqi insurgents like to see become the next US president? Obama or McCain? Now isn't that interesting...

      My point is, Obama should feel pretty safe in Iraq.

      Modded "Flamebait" because it's true.

    5. Re:Manipulating elections another way by PopeRatzo · · Score: -1, Troll

      Yes, bad things happen in the world, and my heart bleeds a little every time I hear about a child starving to death, or the AIDS epidemic, or genocide.

      No, it doesn't. You are lying. It just makes you feel more manly when your country bombs something because WoW just isn't enough for you any more.

      Yeah, it makes you warm and fuzzy to clothes a homeless man, but if you give him the clothes off your back, now, YOU are naked.

      You must think Christians are really stupid, huh?

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  2. Re:Obstruction of Justice Dept. by buswolley · · Score: 0, Troll

    http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKN1830368120080718 hmm but McCain would.

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  3. Re:"Up against the wall, MF" by belmolis · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you were Diebold, you'd want to change your name too. Their reputation is so bad now that on June 30th on Jeopardy one of the clues was: "This machine electronically changes your vote into a vote for Mitt Romney." The correct question was "What is Diebold?"

  4. Re:Anybody surprised? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why don't you just come out and say that you hate Republicans for some irrational reason

    Why would he do that when there are so many rational reasons to hate Republicans?