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Internal emails and memos from Diebold on their voting machines/software
A few months ago, an internet user stumbled upon an anonymous ftp site that contained archives of emails sent to/from diebold. These memos indicate that diebold knowingly sold insecure voting equipment to states and also violated federal law by making changes to the sofware after certification. Diebold is currently on a mission to block this information from becoming public knowledge. Below are a few quotes from the memos that should scare anyone who believes in democracy.
- I need some answers! Our department is being audited by the County. I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 [votes] when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here "looking dumb"
- For a demonstration I suggest you fake it. Progam them both so they look the same, and then just do the upload fro [sic] the AV. That is what we did in the last AT/AV demo.
- Right now you can open GEMS' .mdb file with MS-Access, and alter its contents. That includes the audit log. This isn't anything new.
- Elections are not rocket science. Why is it so hard to get things right! I have never been at any other company that has been so miss [sic] managed.
- Johnson County, KS will be doing Central Count for their mail in ballots. They will also be processing these ballots in advance of the closing of polls on election day. They would like to log into the Audit Log an entry for Previewing any Election Total Reports. They need this, to prove to the media, as well as, any candidates & lawyers, that they did not view or print any Election Results before the Polls closed. However, if there is a way that we can disable the reporting functionality, that would be even better.
- 4K Smart cards which had never been previously programmed are being recognized by the Card Manager as manager cards. When a virgin card from CardLogix is inserted into a Spyrus (have tried CM-0-2-9 and CM-1-1-1) the prompt "Upgrade Mgr Card?" is displayed. Pressing the ENTER key creates a valid manager card. This happens in Admin mode and Election mode.
- It does not matter whether we get anything certified or not, if we can't even get the foundation of Global stable. This company is a mess! We should stop development on all new, and old products and concentrate on making them stable instead of showing vaporware. Selling a new account will only load more crap on an already over burdened entity.
Are these really the type of people you want running YOUR elections.
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I have already been forced to remove the actual memos from my website, but you can try the following links to the complete memos unless/until they also get shut down.
* Browse the documents: http://chroot.net/s/lists/, http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~ping/diebold/lists.html
* Search the documents: http://diebold.f-451.net/search/search.php
* BitTorrent: http://cscott.net/Activism/lists.tgz.torrent
* EDonkey/Overnet: [ed2k://|file|list.tar.bz2|7762005|c53855d1c5da1fec2da1548905bc689f|/]
* Freenet:
CHK@sgOjWAy4g-0bf0m5biyqnEzWloENAwI,OXw8OfHPfsmLd068BtICKg/lists.tgz
CHK@fsatUAqLqJP91UTrCoReT3qciVYNAwI,whenOQbgnMLSo84zg1~~aA/lists.tar.bz2
* Newsgroup postings: Help us do this
* Archived file (tarred and gzipped):
http://eddie.ratm.net/johnkimble/lists/lists.tgz
http://www3.telus.net/swix/list.tar.bz2 (checksum, sig)
On a Windows PC, use WinZip or WinRAR; on a Mac just double-click the file
* .edu hosts of the documents (both archived and full-text):
o Swarthmore College (takedown request received)
o Swarthmore College (takedown request received)
o Univ. of Southern California http://www-scf.usc.edu/~kanawi/lists.tgz
o Massachusetts Institute of Technology (takedown request received)
o Massachusetts Institute of Technology (takedown request received)
o Massachusetts Institute of Technology http://web.mit.edu/chrisk/www/diebold/list.tar.bz2
o Purdue University (takedown request received)
o Univ. of TexasPan American http://www.asl.cs.panam.edu/~babbitt/diebold/lists.tgz
o Amherst College (takedown request received)
o Hampshire College http://stout.hampshire.edu/~pks03/list.tar.bz2
o Rochester Institute of Technology http://www.cs.rit.edu/~cmm5533/diebold/lists.tgz
o Rochester Institute of Technology http://libre.rh.rit.edu/lists.tgz
o Rochester Institute of Technology http://rancor.rh.rit.edu/
o Rochester Institute of Technology http://www.rit.edu/~tjd3307/lists.tar.bz2
o Univ. of Evansville http://csserver.evansville.edu/~sc87/diebold/
o Boston University http://cs-people.bu.edu/chrisn1/diebold-memos.tgz
o Carnegie Mellon University http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~matth/lists
o Carnegie Mellon University http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/~dcheng/diebold/lists.tgz
o Carnegie Mellon University http://andrew.cmu.edu/~apapadop/lists.tgz
o Univ. of MissouriRolla (takedown request received)
o Indiana University (takedown request received)
o Harvard University (takedown request received)
o Harvard University http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~luey/lists.tgz
o Univ. of CaliforniaBerkeley (takedown request received)
o Univ. of CaliforniaBerkeley http://sims.berkeley.edu/~parkert/misc/lists.tgz
o Univ. of CaliforniaBerkeley http://sims.berkeley.edu/~ping/diebold
o Univ. of CaliforniaBerkeley http://sims.berkeley.edu/~savage/lists.tgz
o Duke University http://www.cs.duke.edu/~justin/archive/diebold.html
o Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill http://www.unc.edu/~cjp2/lists.tgz
o North Carolina State University http://www4.ncsu.edu/~jgkimbro/diebold.html
o Univ. of Pennsylvania http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~dmargoli/lists.tgz
o Grinnell College http://www.math.grinnell.edu/~laiu/lists.tgz
o Grinnell College http://web.grinnell.edu/individuals/laiu/lists.tgz
o Grinnell College http://www.math.grinnell.edu/~lyonavra/diebold/lists/index.html
o Wright State University http://www.wright.edu/~stine.8/politics/list.tar.bz2
o Univ. of MarylandCollege Park http://www.glue.umd.edu/~chsimps/diebold/lists.tgz
o Univ. of Chicago http://home.uchicago.edu/~mhwang/lists.tgz
o Univ. of Chicago http://home.uchicago.edu/~yitzhak/list.tar.bz2
o Univ. of Chicago http://people.cs.uchicago.edu/~ryochiji/
o Bentley College http://web.bentley.edu/students/h/heap_aust/lists.tgz
o Penn State University http://www.personal.psu.edu/~mjo168/lists.tgz
o Penn State University http://www.personal.psu.edu/users/b/j/bje128/diebold.html
o Princeton University http://www.princeton.edu/~kleinman/diebold.html
o Princeton University http://www.princeton.edu/~bcattle/diebold.html
o Princeton University http://www.princeton.edu/~cpence/diebold-lists.tgz
o Michigan State University http://www.msu.edu/~justmanj/lists.tgz
o Iowa State University http://www2.iastate.edu/~daoist/diebold-lists.tgz
o University of WashingtonTacoma http://faculty.washington.edu/dmclane/lists.tgz
o Johns Hopkins University http://myweb.jhu.edu/bananas/diebold-lists.tgz
o Kent State University http://www.personal.kent.edu/~sfidel/lists.tgz
o Kent State University http://www.personal.kent.edu/~bmcconah/lists.tgz
o Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~gordonmw/lists.tgz
o Yale University http://yale128036068211.student.yale.edu/~andrew/diebold/lists.tgz
o Bronx High School of Science http://www.bxscience.edu/~dauriaa/lists.tgz
o Dartmouth College http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~apd/lists.tgz
o Georgetown University http://saxa.georgetown.edu/lists.tgz
o Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy http://alumni.imsa.edu/~hangman/lists.tgz
o Lafayette College http://www.cs.lafayette.edu/~ahmedf/archive/lists.tgz
o Univ. of IllinoisUrbana-Champaign http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/~badr/lists.tgz
o Univ. of Virginia http://www.people.virginia.edu/~ajs6f/lists.tgz
o Univ. of WisconsinMilwaukee http://www.uwm.edu/~cmerkel/lists.tgz
o Univ. of WisconsinMilwaukee http://www.uwm.edu/~puissan2/
o Georgia Southern University http://www.georgiasouthern.edu/~jtwyford/list/list.tar.bz2
o Middle Tennessee State University http://www.mtsu.edu/~cow2a/lists.tgz
o Ohio State University http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~wangje/lists.tgz
o Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~drumz/lists.tgz
o Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~ssavage/lists.tgz
o Stanford University http://www.stanford.edu/~fire/lists.tar.tar
o Stevens Institute of Technology http://attila.stevens-tech.edu/~pgengler/lists.tar.bz2
o Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~paulj/lists.tgz
o Case Western Reserve University http://home.cwru.edu/~ajc30/list.tar.bz2
o Univ. of Michigan http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jwagnerk/lists.tgz
o Univ. of Michigan http://tenaya.physics.lsa.umich.edu/~dwchin/Diebold/diebold/lists.html
o Seton Hall University http://sciris.shu.edu/~moorerob/diebold/index.html
o Seton Hall University http://pirate.shu.edu/~encarnvi/index.html
o Seton Hall University http://sciris.shu.edu/~encarnvi/diebold/index.html
o Indiana University Southeast http://linux.ius.edu/header/download.php
o Monash University http://www-personal.monash.edu.au/~ltdav1/list.tar.bz2
o Univ. of IllinoisChicago http://tigger.uic.edu/~kkubic1/lists.tgz
o Univ. of Northern British Columbia http://web.unbc.ca/~vogtd/list.tar.bz2
o Univ. of MinnesotaDuluth http://www.d.umn.edu/~ulfe0003/lists.tgz
To open the .tgz and .tar.gz files on a Windows PC, use WinZip or WinRAR; on a Mac just double-click the file.
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