New Diebold lawsuit to be filed Tues. against Calif. Sec. State

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Monday March 20, 2006 · 3:57 PM PST

2006/03/20 · 15:57

Tue. March 21: Voter Action News Conference, 10:30 -11:30 AM, PST

Lowell Finley, the lawyer who cost Schwarzenegger $4 million on a campaign finance violation lawsuit, the attorney who cost Diebold $2.6 million for fraudulent claims in California, and the lawyer who handled the groundbreaking litigation for VoterAction.org in New Mexico (the first time a voting machine vendor has been successfully brought to discovery in a public case) -- will file suit on behalf of VoterAction again.

This time, the case will be filed against California for wrongfully certifying the Diebold TSx.

According to the VoterAction press release:

"Diebold's TSx touch screen voting system is a severe security risk, and does not accommodate all disabled voters as required by law. The Diebold system is difficult if not impossible to audit or recount, and has been proven vulnerable to malicious tampering in tests and studies. Diebold technology contains "interpreted" code, which is easily hacked, and illegal for voting systems in the State of California." Read More

Utah official arranged independent testing of Diebold TSx touch-screens

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Saturday March 18, 2006 · 10:57 PM PST

2006/03/18 · 22:57

Emery County Clerk Bruce Funk has been running elections for 23 years. He was quite content with his optical scan system. The state of Utah thought otherwise: On Dec. 27, Funk took delivery on 40 Diebold TSx touch-screen machines, part of a statewide directive.

"I had concerns about Diebold," says Funk, "but I thought, 'If the state is going to mandate it, then I guess they'll assume responsibility if anything goes wrong.'"

Not so. He soon learned that he will be responsible but the state will decide what election system will count the votes.

Funk's concerns escalated when he heard a particularly unusual statement by Diebold sales rep Dana LaTour.

"Some of you are going to hate my guts on Election Day," she said to the assembly of elections officials. Read More

New Black Box Voting report to be issued on Diebold TSx touch-screens

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Saturday March 18, 2006 · 12:09 AM PST

2006/03/18 · 00:09

There will be a brief report issued tomorrow (Sat.) by Black Box Voting regarding testing performed on the Diebold TSx touch-screen machines.

The testing was performed for an elections official who noticed anomalies in county voting machines. It was underwritten, videotaped and photographed by Black Box Voting and performed by Finnish security expert Harri Hursti and Security Innovation, Inc.

Look for more details at BlackBoxVoting.org shortly. It has been a grueling and long day, and will be most likely an eventful next few weeks. Read More

Step by Step tutorial to demonstrate Diebold security defects

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Thursday March 09, 2006 · 11:03 PM PST

2006/03/09 · 23:03

Start work now to protect Election 2006. Here's a tutorial if you are planning to do a presentation, demonstration or meeting with public officials about problems with voting machines. It takes a modest amount of computer skill to do this demo. Any tech-friendly person can help you with this.

Your comments and observations after you install the tamper-inviting GEMS program will be examined by many who are truly interested in election integrity. Wear a flame-proof suit to withstand the damage control trolls, and please do post your findings.

This do-it-yourself hack demonstration attacks the mail-in votes, neatly flipping them whenever necessary. It uses real software used in real elections. We have examined the latest versions and the techniques still work.

This system passed federal testing labs over and over, and state examiners said it met state law even when state law requires the system to be "secure from tampering." Read More

Ion Sancho - Election official hammered for telling the truth. Enter the lawyers...

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Wednesday March 08, 2006 · 9:05 PM PST

2006/03/08 · 21:05

Ion Sancho is the Supervisor of Elections in Leon County, Florida -- that's Tallahassee, folks, the capital of Florida, Jeb's gubernatorial office and Katherine Harris's old civil rights-stomping grounds. Sancho runs elections right in the belly of the beast.

This morning, Ion Sancho went on the attack, putting his lawyers on Diebold for breach of contract. See Bradblog Story for the latest breaking news on this. Ion Sancho said, as reported by Bradblog, "We filed a breach action this morning."

Sancho is referring to Diebold's failure to honor its contractual commitments with Leon County's elections division.

From the Miami Herald:

''It's been a rough few weeks,'' Sancho said Monday, nearly in tears.
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Palm Beach 2004 votes time-stamped middle of the night, date-stamped 2 weeks early

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Thursday February 23, 2006 · 10:21 PM PST

2006/02/23 · 22:21

The internal logs of at least 40 Sequoia touch-screen voting machines reveal that votes were time and date-stamped as cast two weeks before the election, sometimes in the middle of the night.

Black Box Voting successfully sued former Palm Beach County (FL) Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore to get the audit records for the 2004 presidential election.

After investing over $7,000 and waiting nine months for the records, Black Box Voting has discovered that the voting machine logs contain approximately 100,000 errors. Out of 4,313 voting machines, the logs show 1,475 voting system calibrations while the polls were open, providing documentation to substantiate reports of vote-flipping by citizens who were told this was due to "calibration problems."

Another disturbing find was several dozen voting machines with votes for the Nov. 2, 2004 election cast on dates like Oct. 16, 15, 19, 13, 25, 28 2004 and one tape dated in 2010. These machines did not contain any votes date-stamped on Nov. 2, 2004.

Washington Post article on this Read More

An Open Letter to the Citizens of the United States

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Tuesday February 21, 2006 · 8:01 PM PST

2006/02/21 · 20:01

As California goes, so goes the nation. While a $4 billion company and the California secretary of state flaunt the law, an honest citizen is charged with a felony and may face jail time. His crime? Releasing documents describing Diebold's criminal acts.

You could not ask for a more pure and honest whistleblower. Steve Heller is a man who saw something that he knew was wrong, and made sure it got to authorities. Soon after his documents were delivered to the California secretary of state and to the California attorney general, then-sec. state Kevin Shelley decertified Diebold and recommended criminal prosecution of Diebold.

THE ONLY PERSON PROSECUTED, HOWEVER...

The only one who was prosecuted is a quiet honest citizen who made sure the documents reached authorities. It is now two years later. The Los Angeles County District Attorney has waited until the attention was off the election to quietly prosecute Steve Heller.

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