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• Your elections have been hacked.

  
  mavenandmeddler — Authority: 128
  I realize this film isn’t new, but it was new to me tonight. As we watched, the sickening realization dawned on us … that the eight years of the Bush presidency was almost without doubt illegal and hacked. Questions still remain.
  19 hours ago

• Scoop: Voting News: DOJ probes Diebold sale

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 548
  Justice Department Probing Diebold Sale, timing of sale is also of interest... Brad Friedman reports "Your Election Night 2009 Hiccups Glitches Snags and Snafus Report"..Todays voting news report covers election problems in California, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New York, North Carolina, Ohio ...
  3 days ago

• Letters: Voting Equipment and the Way Elections Are Run

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  To the Editor:.
  3 days ago

• PerfectPitch Owner Apologizes For DMCA Notice, Explains What Happened [Follow Ups]

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 775
  Gary Boucherle, the owner of the website and product PerfectPitch, sent us an explanation of why he got Google to remove links to mentions of his product on another persons blog. The short version: Jeremy Keiths blog was accidentally lumped into a list of blogs being reported to Google for mentioning pirate copies ...
  5 days ago

• Sarasota Sample Ballots Urged Voters to Use Blue Ink, Though New Op-Scan Systems Cant Read It

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 132
  On October 17th, we reported that Worlds Worst Supervisor of Elections Kathy Dent of Sarasota, FL had discovered in pre-election tests that her new Diebold/Premier optical-scan voting systems failed to properly read paper ballots marked with blue ink . Her "solution": Make sure that black pens were available at ...
  6 days ago

• Your Election Night 2009 Hiccups Glitches Snags and Snafus Report...

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 132
  Were watching results as theyre coming in tonight, while continuing to comb through various problem reports as theyve been coming in throughout the day (the usual "hiccups" "glitches" "snags" and "snafus" reportage --- anything but the proper word for them all: "failure"!) As we always find necessary to remind ...
  1 week ago

• Letter: One Voting Machine Vendor?

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  To the Editor:.
  1 week ago

• NYTimes Slams Diebold/ES&S Merger, Succeeds In Not Using Word Paperless Even Once!

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 132
  Congrats to New York Times for their Wednesday editorial slamming the ES&S takeover of Diebolds election division (which, if allowed by federal regulators to go through, would give a single private company sole control of some 70% of the votes in this countrys once-public elections). While the Times has ...
  1 week ago

• Editorial: Trust, Antitrust and Your Vote

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 913
  If any one voting machine maker is allowed to dominate the market, there will be even greater reasons to worry about the vulnerability of future elections.
  1 week ago

• ‘The computer says so’ is not a good answer

  
  Voting Matters Blog — Authority: 106
  In Humboldt County California, Registrar of Voters Carolyn Crnich has not had good luck relying on her computer system(s) to give her accurate information. This has created problems. In November 2008 she found out that the Diebold optical scan system she was using was capable of making an entire batch of counted ...
  2 weeks ago

• UI Undergrad Wins 2009 Collegiate Inventors Competition

  
  The Quad — Authority: 117
  For the first time in its 18 year history, an undergraduate student won the Collegiate Inventors Competition. Industrial Design Senior Stephen Diebold, 21, of Rolling Meadows shared the grand prize award. He was recognized for his invention of the Drop Point, a device that helps quadriplegics with everyday tasks. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wow! Diebold scanners are picky about ink colors on ballots

  
  Voting Matters Blog — Authority: 106
  Yup, you read that right.  Diebold scanners are picky about which color ink is used to mark a ballot — sometimes just can not read blue ink .  Also, sometimes just can not read  marks made with number two pencil.  Everyone who has ever filled out a scantron sheet for an  SAT or GRE or any other ...
  3 weeks ago

• Diebolds Optical-Scan System FAILS in Sarasota, FL

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 132
  The November 3rd Election Day is nearing, so naturally the words "glitch", "hiccup", "snafu" and "snag" are back in the headlines, instead of the word "failure" which would be the appropriate one to use in such cases. Today, its our old friends in Sarasota, under the continuing and now-legendarily failed direction of ...
  3 weeks ago

• CA Computer Scientists Charge U.S. EAC Misused Security Findings from Landmark E-Voting Study

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 132
  A group of computer scientists and security experts from Californias 2007 landmark "Top-to-Bottom Review" (TTBR) of electronic voting systems, have sent a two-page letter [PDF] of condemnation to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) taking the federal body to task for their approval of misused security ...
  3 weeks ago

• Instant cheque reading ATMs with Cheque Truncating Machine

  
  Prajna Capital - An Investment Guide — Authority: 128
  SBI, IDBI & ING Vysya Among Banks Interested In Special Machines; Reserve Bank Blesses Move NEED cash urgently but have already overdrawn from your account? You have a cheque from a client but it is of little use in the dead of night. Lost or misplaced your debit card and need cash to pay the party organiser for ...
  4 weeks ago

• Schwarzenegger Vetoes Election Integrity Bills

  
  The BRAD BLOG — Authority: 132
  According to a press release from CA Sec. of State Debra Bowen [PDF] today, CA Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed one bill for improvement to state election law, while using his veto pen to terminate three other "common-sense elections bills ... aimed at enhancing government transparency." The one he ...
  4 weeks ago

• On the lobbying, lawsuit,and investigations fronts

  
  Great Product Direct — Authority: 156
  On the lobbying, lawsuit,and investigations frontsOctober 10, 2009 | No comments The Federal Communications Commission will follow-up on AT&T’s complaints about Google Voice, according to this report.Senator Schumer announced that Senate Rules Committee staff will review a proposed merger between Diebold and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ring of Fire Cant Stop Laughing About BRAD BLOG Headline on GA Supreme Court Decision

  
  BuzzFlash.net: published — Authority: 548
  "Georgia Supreme Court Rules Unauditable, Unverifiable Elections Are Just Fine." Though they give me the credit, it was Rady Anandas story here last week which expertly covered Diebolds wholly unverifiable touch-screen voting machines receiving the thumbs up for use across the entire state of Georgia, where theyve ...
  4 weeks ago

• ACORN SchmACORN

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 677
  By GottaLaff ACORN SchmACORN, lets take a look back in time at what fraud really looked like: (click on image to enlarge) Remember, there is a difference between voter fraud and election fraud. Voter fraud is extremely rare and is the intentional corruption of the electoral process by the voter . That ...
  5 weeks ago

• GOP cyber-security expert suggests Diebold tampered with 2002 election

  
  Citizen G'kar: Musings on Earth — Authority: 110
  Perhaps the truth will come out about the past elections tampering. Curiously, one week after Diebold sells it’s voting machine for $5mil, information leaks about the Diebold CEO tampering with the machines during the Georgia election in 2002 where Democratic darling disabled veteran Max Cleland was defeated when ...
  8 weeks ago

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