OT| U.S. democracy in peril

From: Andrew Nowicki (andrew_at_nospam.com)
Date: 11/13/04 

Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 20:06:12 +0100

"A Tale of Two Brothers: Voting Fraud in the USA"
Source and details:
http://memes.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3667&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

80% of all votes in America are counted by only two
companies: Diebold and ES&S.

There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or
oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.

The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are
brothers.

The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign
organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was
"committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to
the president next year."

35% of ES&S is owned by Republican Senator Chuck Hagel, who
became Senator based on votes counted by ES&S machines.

Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper
trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to
verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same
as what was legitimately put in by voters.

Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket
machines, all of which log each transaction and can
generate a paper trail.

Diebold is based in Ohio and supplies almost all the voting
machines there.

None of the international election observers were allowed
in the polls in Ohio.

30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable
touch screen voting machines.

Bush's Help America Vote Act of 2002 has as its goal to
replace all machines with the new electronic touch screen
systems.

Republican Senator Chuck Hagel owns 35% of ES&S and was
caught lying about it.

ES&S is the largest voting machine manufacturer in the U.S.
and counts almost 60% of all U.S. votes.

Exit polls for the 2004 elections were accurate within 1%
or less in areas where ballot machines were used.

Major exit poll data discrepancies were noted in counties
where touch screen machines were used, especially in Ohio
and Florida.
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"Dr. Avi Rubin is currently Professor of Computer Science at John
Hopkins University. He accidentally got his hands on a copy of the
Diebold software program -- Diebold's source code -- which runs
their e-voting machines.

Dr. Rubin's students pored over 48,609 lines of code that make up
this software. One line in particular stood out over all the rest:

#define DESKEY ((des_key*) "F2654hd4")

All commercial programs have provisions to be encrypted so as to
protect them from having their contents read or changed by anyone not
having the key. The line that staggered the Hopkin's team was that the
method used to encrypt the Diebold machines was a method called
Digital Encryption Standard (DES), a code that was broken in 1997 and
is NO LONGER USED by anyone to secure programs. F2654hd4 was the key
to the encryption. Moreover, because the KEY was IN the source code,
all Diebold machines would respond to the same key.

I can't believe there is a person alive who wouldn't understand the
reason this was allowed to happen. This wasn't a mistake but a fixed
election."

Source: William Borgstrom, Mobile, Alabama, 251-580-3306, 251-379-5855
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"The unexplained Exit Poll Discrepancy"
by Steven F. Freeman, Ph.D.,
University of Pennsylvania
November 10, 2004

http://www.ilcaonline.org/freeman.pdf
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"Analysis of an Electronic Voting System"
by Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Aviel D. Rubin,
and Dan S. Wallach, IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy,
Oakland, CA, May, 2004.

http://avirubin.com/vote/analysis/index.html
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Diebold voting machine illustration:
http://homepage.mac.com/rcareaga/diebold/big_die/diebold_1.jpg

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