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BREAKING - DIEBOLD SOURCE CODE !!! THIS IS BIG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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Subject: Re: Fwd: !!! BREAKING - DIEBOLD SOURCE CODE !!! THIS IS
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Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:16:32 +0100 (MET)
From: Nico Haupt
To: brad



> does this story have legs ?
> Brad

watch out, very carefully. It could be out of context.
Ari Rubin gave already interviews last week, and he didn´t mention any
particular source code, as a smoking gun.

The DailyKOS info is based on this reference below, by someone named William
Borgstrom.
SCROLL BELOW!

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However, i called up this guy and spoke with his wife, both almost sleeping
:)
The posting is real , the number is real. Please don´t pass around.
His wife confirmed, he read an article of Rubin and posted this stuff
around...

but we need more IMHO... anyone specialised in that code reading?
also, i´m currently following 3 suspicious McGinnis people at ES&S, which i
see connected with the hack..:


[link to tinyurl.com]
Known Vendors of Computerized Vote Tabulation Systems
mentioned here:
Dan McGinnis, Vice President of US Sales ES&S
-Eastern Region
[email protected]



es+s

According to Lexis Joe McGinnis was the Marketing Representative for ES&S

ex-ES&S Joe McGinnis violated Election Protocol on 10/16
[link to www.theeveningleader.com]

...there is also a Robb McGinnis:

[link to www.wishtv.com]
March 15, 2004
Johnson County Demands Answers From ES&S

"..ES&S had installed illegal software in touch-screen voting machines used
by three Indiana counties last November...
...Compliance also means a test next week of software illegally used in the
November election. “We´ll run some votes, print some results. We´ll verify
that everything´s correct,â€? said Robb McGinnis, ES&S.


Indiana Election Commission
Minutes
August 7, 2001
[link to tinyurl.com]

"...The Chair recognized Robb McGinnis of ES&S who introduced Jack Black and
Pat Whalen also of
ES&S and who explained that the voting system was set up in the hallway
outside of the meeting room
because of space considerations..."


The PEBs, Serial Numbers and the "Override button"

"...Mr. McGinnis explained that the master PEB (Personalized Electronic
Ballot) would be inserted into each voting unit by the inspector at a
polling place. He explained that each PEB has a serial number as does each
voting unit and is used to open and close each voting unit so that all the
totals for the voting units in a polling place are on one PEB.

Mr. Long asked if the master PEB is precinct unique. Mr. McGinnis stated
that it is unique because the serial number embedded in the PEB must match
the serial number of the voting units in that precinct so that the master
PEB could not go to the wrong precinct and be used. Mr. Long asked if a
county would be able to add or replace a voting unit in a precinct. Mr.
McGinnis explained that there is an override button so that a voting
terminal could be replaced and a new one added or if one needed to be
removed and replaced. Ms. Christie asked if that override could be done at
the precinct level. Mr. McGinnis indicated that this would be done at the
precinct level. Mr. Long asked if the central office of the county would
program the PEBs. Mr. McGinnis indicated that the vendor would do that for
the county and that they would do it centrally on a PC....

...Mr. Morgan asked about other ES&S DRE voting systems operating in other
states. Mr. McGinnis indicated that ES&S has about 30 jurisdictions on the
Votronic DRE voting system. He explained that the iVotronic is a newer
system that is the same system as the Votronic DRE but has the ADA
functionality, and that ES&S has just sold the iVotronic system to a few
counties. Ms. Christie asked what the vendor’s customers are using for
absentee ballots. Mr. McGinnis stated that most of these customers are using
ES&S’ optical scan voting system. He also stated that the iVotronic voting
system integrates the optical scan voting totals in with the DRE totals to
come up with a final count of the votes.


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[link to tinyurl.com]

Dr. Avi Rubin is currently Professor of Computer Science at John
Hopkins University. He "accidently"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:

#defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4"

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 prograns.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. Unlock one, you have
then ALL unlocked.

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 by any
stretch of the imagination. This was a fixed election, plain and
simple.

This second coup d´etat is either stopped now or America ceases
to be.


Sincerely, William Borgstrom Mobile, Alabama 251-580-3306
251-379-5855


>
> the911coverup wrote:
>
> [link to www.dailykos.com]
>
>
> Dr. Avi Rubin is currently Professor of Computer Science at John
> Hopkins University. He "accidently"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 partictular stood out over all the rest:
> #defineDESKEY((des_KEY8F2654hd4"
>
>
> Diaries :: ouranos´s diary ::
> Go to [link to www.senderberl.com]
> Scroll down to E-MAIL RECEIVED EARLY AM NOVEMBER 10, 2004
>
>
>
> [link to www.johnkerry.com]
>
>
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12/08/2005 10:17 AM
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hmmmmm
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12/08/2005 10:17 AM
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Not "Hmmmmm", but "Yawwwwwn".
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12/08/2005 10:17 AM
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You Stolen Election people are starting to sound like the Beautiful Mind people. Take a breather.
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OK GIVE US A QUICK RUN DOWN OF WHAT´S IT ALL ABOUTdance
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12/08/2005 10:17 AM
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Do you smell it???





It´s in the air...





Martial law.





Bush and co will not let go of their false power.





KD
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12/08/2005 10:17 AM
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You repukes really need to crawl back under your rocks.

On Democracy Now yesterday, I heard that Hillary Clinton and some other Senator tried to get legislation through that would have demanded a paper trail on our votes. Our dear friend, Tom DeLay and others, wouldn´t let it come up for a vote.

Nice work repukes.
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The masses are comfortable with being deceived and lulled. No problem, we can do it again in 4 yrs...WAKE UP OSTRICHES. The sand is getting deeper...deeper...de...
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12/08/2005 10:17 AM
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Thanks. We do our best--and it´s not bad.
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12/08/2005 10:17 AM
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Are you calling me a Republican?

lol

Get a grip!
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12/08/2005 10:17 AM
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Swamp Thing,

You sound like an ignorant sheep. Stop bleating.

"You Stolen Election people are starting to sound
like the Beautiful Mind people. Take a breather."

Dispute the story with facts, or shut your face.
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12/08/2005 10:17 AM
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is the bush icon gonna sniff his finger?
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paper trails scare republicans

that´s why they don´t allow them

TruVote:

[link to www.tennessean.com]


The link above is to the news story about Gibbs referenced in the article below.

The story below I recieved via email with no link:(



Death of a patriot: No more
March 17, 2004

The subject line on yesterday’s email read: “Another mysterious accident solves a Bush problem. Athan Gibbs dead, Diebold lives.” The attached news story briefly described the untimely Friday, March 12th death of perhaps America’s most influential advocate of a verified voting paper trail in the era of touch screen computer voting. Gibbs, an accountant for more than 30 years and the inventor of the TruVote system, died when his vehicle collided with an 18-wheeled truck which rolled his Chevy Blazer several times and forced it over the highway retaining wall where it came to rest on its roof.

Coincidence theorists will simply dismiss the death of Gibbs as a tragic accident – the same conclusion these coincidence theorists came to when anti-nuclear activist Karen Silkwood died in November 1974 when her car struck a concrete embankment en route to a meeting with New York Times reporter David Burnham. Prominent independent investigators concluded that Silkwood’s car was hit from behind and forced off the road. Silkwood was reportedly carrying documents that would expose illegal activities at the Kerr-McGee nuclear fuel plant. The FBI report found that she fell asleep at the wheel after overdosing on Quaaludes and that there never were any such files. A journalist secretly employed by the FBI, and a veteran of the Bureau’s COINTELPRO operation against political activists, provided testimony for the FBI report.

Gibbs’ death bears heightened scrutiny because of the way he lived his life after the 2000 Florida election debacle. I interviewed Athan Gibbs in January of this year. “I’ve been an accountant, an auditor, for more than thirty years. Electronic voting machines that don’t supply a paper trail go against every principle of accounting and auditing that’s being taught in American business schools,” he insisted.

“These machines are set up to provide paper trails. No business in America would buy a machine that didn’t provide a paper trail to audit and verify its transaction. Now, they want the people to purchase machines that you can’t audit? It’s absurd.”

Gibbs was in Columbus, Ohio proudly displaying his TruVote machine that offered a “VVPAT, that’s a voter verified paper audit trail” he noted.

Gibbs also suggested that I look into the “people behind the other machines.” He offered that “Diebold and ES&S are real interesting and all Republicans. If you’re an investigative reporter go ahead and investigate. You’ll find some interesting material.”

Gibbs’ TruVote machine is a marvel. After voters touch the screen, a paper ballot prints out under plexiglass and once the voter compares it to his actual vote and approves it, the ballot drops into a lockbox and is issued a numbered receipt. The voter’s receipt allows the track his particular vote to make sure that it was transferred from the polling place to the election tabulation center.

My encounter with Gibbs led to a cover story in the Columbus Free Press March-April issue, entitled, “Diebold, electronic voting and the vast right-wing conspiracy.” The thesis I advanced in the Free Press article (www.freepress.org/columns/display/3/2004/834) is that some of the same right-wing individuals who backed the CIA’s covert actions and overthrowing of democratic elections in the Third World in the 1980s are now involved in privatized touch screen voting. Additionally I co-wrote an article with Harvey Wasserman that was posted at MotherJones.com (www.motherjones.com/commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html) on March 5, 2004. Both articles outlined ties between far right elements of the Republican Party and Diebold and ES&S, which count the majority of the nation’s electronic votes.

As I wrote in the Free Press article, “Proponents of a paper trail were emboldened when Athan Gibbs, President and CEO of TruVote International, demonstrated a voting machine at a vendor’s fair in Columbus that provides two separate voting receipts.”

In an interview on WVKO radio, Gibbs calmly and methodically explained the dangers of “black box” touch screen voting. “It absolutely makes no sense to buy electronic voting machines that can’t produce a paper trail. Inevitably, computers mess up. How are you going to have a recount, or correct malfunctions without a paper trail?

Now, the man asking the obvious question, and demonstrating an obvious tangible solution is dead in another tragic accident, a week after both articles were in circulation.

When I called TruVote International to verify Gibbs’ death, I reached Chief Financial Officer Adrenne Brandon who assured me “We’re going on in his memory. We’re going to make this happen.”

Every American concerned with democracy should pledge to make this happen. To beat back the rush for state governments to purchase privatized, partisan and unreliable electronic voting machines without verified paper trails.

Gibbs’ last words to me were “How do you explain what happened to Senator Max Cleland in Georgia. How do you explain that? The Maryland study and the Johns Hopkins scientists have warned us against ‘blind faith voting.’ These systems can be hacked into. They found patches in Georgia and the people servicing the machine had entered the machines during the voting process. How can we the people accept this? No more blind faith voting.”

Dr. Bob Fitrakis is Senior Editor of The Free Press ( [link to freepress.org] ), a political science professor, and author of numerous articles and books.
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WE MUST HAVE THE PAPER TRAIL AND ANYONE WHO BLOCKS THAT IS A COMMIE FASCIST. PLAIN AND SIMPLE, FOR ALL PARTIES.

ANY PARTY THAT TRIES TO BLOCK VOTES, OR SQUASH EFFORTS TO MAKE IT A LEGITIAMATE VOTE ARE DEFINITELY NOT LOOKING OUT FOR THE USA of AMERICA but serving their own ends-EVIL AGENDA


This has happened in history but let the mullets keep honking until they goosestep


ST is not a repube-he is looking out for the family that need their jobs to eat not bleat about how great we are.
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This is a Coup and it did not start this year. It did not start in 2000. It may have started around the time JFK RFK King And Malcohm X were murdered. This thing is pretty mature.
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This mess is ripe now. It´s time to fix it or forget it.
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Life is tough, isn´t it, losers? Keep on whining and moaning--we´re getting quite a kick out of it.
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It´d be one thing to honestly lose. It´s an entirely different thing to be cheated by those one should be able to trust.
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audit bump
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we dont like this
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When I grow up, I wan´t to be a lying, stealing, cheating Republican. Just like George "Dubya" Bush.
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fucking hang them all !!
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"Life is tough, isn´t it, losers? Keep on whining and moaning--we´re getting quite a kick out of it."

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

So, you think living in a country where the vote is fixed is just fine, huh ...as long as the candidates YOU support are put in power? What if the shoe was on the other foot and our side was fixing elections? Would you like that?

The evidence is overwhelming. Only an imbecile could not see it. Feed from my asshole, you cockslurping nazi pig.
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boy how the minority squalls when they know they´ve been caught cheating to be the majority.

You "voted" for this shit. You get over it.
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The worm is beginning to turn...
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You "voted" for this shit. You get over it.>>>>>>


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you mean ´avatard´

fraud is not good for anyone

deal with it when the indictments come down or sooner
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Isn´t it a felony to obstruct someone´s right to vote? Does that mean that all the congressional representatives who prevented the use of paper trails for electronic voting in the last election can now be arrested and prosecuted for infringement of our constitutional rights? Love, Daleth
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