See, the irony of Diebold suing Massachussetts for not buying their
defective vote rigging/eating machines is that Diebold
markets the machine that Mass is buying from ES&S.
Thats hipocritical to the max.
Diebold - News ReleasesALLEN, Texas -- Diebold Election Systems and AutoMARK Technical Systems have... The AutoMARK(TM) accessible device can be used with Diebold's optical scan...
www.diebold.com/news/newsdisp.asp?id=3292
the operating system does play a part in the counting of the votes.
Diebold modifies the heck out of the operating system.
And they used convicted embezzlers to do so.
The Fact is that the operating system plays a huge part in
the counting of the votes.
Diebold modifies the hell out of Windows CE for the voting systems,
and applied a software patch to it just immediately before the
2002 Georgia elections.
Another thing - NC's rfp process is being overseen by the same Diebold
employee who directed the installation of 22,000 Diebold machines in Georgia.
No wonder the RFP differed from the law.
Hey, we need folks in Onslow county. We told the Election Director, the local paper, and the county commissioners that Hart Intercivic machines were crap and they wouldn't listen.
I also warned them that the law required paper ballots, which they didn't seem to know.
We need a good advocate in that county, because they don't know what they are doing.
The Hart Intercivic is a piece of crap, also uses Windows, caused huge undervotes with it's DREs in Catawba County. Huge.
Also, it's optical scanner will wipe out entire contests on multiple ballots if there is a speck of dust or piece of lint on the scanner screen.
This results it gigantic undervotes as well, and can only be corrected by
hand counting the paper ballots, IF someone will request that.
If you are willing to help, please go to http://www.ncvoter.net/ and click on the yahoo group button on the right.
Thanks for your information.
Article that explains how Diebold alters the Microsoft operating system:
Part of the Voting and Elections web pages
by Douglas W. Jones THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA Department of Computer Science
Furthermore, it is emerging that the version of Windows CE used by Diebold is both heavily customized and full of dynamically loaded libraries. As a result, there are strong grounds for the conclusion that the operating system is not unmodified commercial off the shelf software (COTS), and that with this extensive use of dynamic linkage, we cannot even tell if the system being run on a particular voting machine resembles the system that was disclosed in the configuration documents submitted with this system when it went through the FEC/NASED approval process.
http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/dieboldftp.h tml
Diebold patched the Windows CE operating system in Georgia:"Williams does acknowledge, however, that a month and a half before the
November election, he worked with Diebold to apply a patch to the Windows CE operating system. The voting machines run on version 3.0 of Windows CE, he said, and they patched it to correct problems they were having with the system"
http://www.votescam.com/Patchelections.php
More about how we beat Diebold and the fight for Verified Voting in North Carolina here at
http://www.ncvoter.net/
And much thanks owed to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for representing us in this case. http://www.eff.org/
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See, the irony of Diebold suing Massachussetts for not buying their defective vote rigging/eating machines is that Diebold markets the machine that Mass is buying from ES&S. Thats hipocritical to the max. Diebold - News ReleasesALLEN, Texas -- Diebold Election Systems and AutoMARK Technical Systems have ... The AutoMARK(TM) accessible device can be used with Diebold's optical scan ...
www.diebold.com/news/newsdisp.asp?id=3292
the operating system does play a part in the counting of the votes. Diebold modifies the heck out of the operating system. And they used convicted embezzlers to do so.
Diebold modifies the hell out of Windows CE for the voting systems, and applied a software patch to it just immediately before the 2002 Georgia elections.
Another thing - NC's rfp process is being overseen by the same Diebold employee who directed the installation of 22,000 Diebold machines in Georgia. No wonder the RFP differed from the law.
Hey, we need folks in Onslow county. We told the Election Director, the local paper, and the county commissioners that Hart Intercivic machines were crap and they wouldn't listen. I also warned them that the law required paper ballots, which they didn't seem to know. We need a good advocate in that county, because they don't know what they are doing. The Hart Intercivic is a piece of crap, also uses Windows, caused huge undervotes with it's DREs in Catawba County. Huge. Also, it's optical scanner will wipe out entire contests on multiple ballots if there is a speck of dust or piece of lint on the scanner screen. This results it gigantic undervotes as well, and can only be corrected by hand counting the paper ballots, IF someone will request that. If you are willing to help, please go to http://www.ncvoter.net/ and click on the yahoo group button on the right. Thanks for your information.
Furthermore, it is emerging that the version of Windows CE used by Diebold is both heavily customized and full of dynamically loaded libraries. As a result, there are strong grounds for the conclusion that the operating system is not unmodified commercial off the shelf software (COTS), and that with this extensive use of dynamic linkage, we cannot even tell if the system being run on a particular voting machine resembles the system that was disclosed in the configuration documents submitted with this system when it went through the FEC/NASED approval process. http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/dieboldftp.h tml
Diebold and other ATM vendors say they're "hardening" the installations of Windows they ship with their ATMs by disabling unnecessary services and ports and removing files that support peripherals http://www.computerworld.com/networkingtopics/netw orking/story/0,10801,89119,00.html
Diebold patched the Windows CE operating system in Georgia:"Williams does acknowledge, however, that a month and a half before the November election, he worked with Diebold to apply a patch to the Windows CE operating system. The voting machines run on version 3.0 of Windows CE, he said, and they patched it to correct problems they were having with the system" http://www.votescam.com/Patchelections.php More about how we beat Diebold and the fight for Verified Voting in North Carolina here at http://www.ncvoter.net/
And much thanks owed to the Electronic Frontier Foundation for representing us in this case. http://www.eff.org/