Diebold Takes Down BlackBoxVoting.org

[johnr]

Diebold takes down blackboxvoting.org

US election fraud? Perish the thought!

By Egan Orion: Wednesday 24 September 2003, 11:27

DIEBOLD ELECTION SYSTEMS has brandished lawyers' threats to take down that pesky citizens activist website blackboxvoting.org. It seems they charged copyright infringement regarding materials on other websites that blackboxvoting.org merely linked to, despite such links having been ruled legal by appellate courts in other instances. This appears to be a public relations gaffe of staggering proportions on Diebold's part. It's not like bunging the terms "Diebold election fraud" into Google brings up only that blackboxvoting.org site -- just it and about 1,889 other hits, including a recent story at Salon, another at Wired, and two pieces here at the INQUIRER, as well as articles in major news publications. What can they be thinking?

Source link:
http://www.theinquirer.net/? article=11743

Origin:
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=23692

 

[Jim March]

They're driven to a desperate game of global wack-a-mole.

They're covering up an Enron/Worldcom-class failure of corporate ethics.

There's so many cease'n'desists going out, somebody is selling "I got a Diebold cease and desist order!" bumper stickers.



So far, I'm the only one that's filed a fully official "eat excrement and expire, go ahead and sue me" official DCMA counter-notification.

It's been six days now. To file that, I had to give my home address for service of process and submit to the jurisdiction of the Federal courts.

They ain't done squat. This is the world's largest bluff. Damned if I know what good they think it'll do to scare chicken-excrement ISPs.

 

[Jim March]

Y'all have GOT to check this out:

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/voterevolution.html


Serious comedy alert . Note: whoever wrote it was clearly anti-Bush but ignoring that, it's funny as hell and otherwise dead accurate.

 

[johnr]

Thanks for checking in, Jim- I figured you'd be interested.

 

[C.R.Sam]

Seems they are helping to spread the word of their own evil.

Good.

Helping to hoist themselves by their own petard.

Sam

 

[Diesle]

Im so eager to find out how this unfolds for your Jim. Everyone else is folding.... folding fast. Hope you have someone near you at all times right now..... Just to watch your back for the time being.

I have to think that they will realize that the cat is way the hell out of the bag and that their C&D effort is going nowhere. Media saturation is good (could be better) and a couple of reasonably credable security reports have been released recently.

Is the end game to run Diebold out of this line of business? Has their credability been so damaged that its too late for them to make good on the system and 'fix' it?

Diesle

 

[Brian Dale]

Maybe the end game is to teach those who would sell voting equipment that any criminal negligence, vote tampering, back-door system access and fraud will be exposed and punished.

 

[Jim March]

I'm so sick o' this male bovine product, I've just sent out the following to a buncha people.

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Diebold fraud update:

I've just finished a major re-vamp to my site at
http://www.equalccw.com/voteprar.html

This brief memo is about the new content and related issues.

As most of you know, various Diebold expose sites are popping up and dropping off in a bizarre game of "global wack-a-mole" driven by the frenzied attempts of Diebold's lawyers to file a flurry of cease'n'desists.

Thus far I'm the only site owner who has shown a willingness to file a counter-notification under the DMCA, taking full legal responsibility for my site's content and hence forcing my ISP to leave my material up per DMCA rules:

http://www.equalccw.com/liebold.html

It's been seven days now, with no response from Diebold. They'd have to be out of their minds to actually sue as the alleged infringing material would be allowed in court as evidence and I'm not afraid of them if they do.

Therefore, if anybody is sick of this stupid bluff and wants to put up a page that Diebold can't touch, drop me a line. I'll provide my personal info so that the site can be registered in MY name. I'll also write up a counter-notification for the ISP in question in advance of a Diebold cease'n'desist, so that once hit by a Diebold nastygram they can immediately turn over my letter and evade all legal responsibility (dumping it on me), leaving the site up.

Other than taking such responsibility, I won't try and butt in on the site's day-to-day management unless REALLY infringing material goes up. Which won't include anything Diebold ever scammed together.

In other news:

I've prepared a pair of detailed technical analysis papers on what we already know Diebold has done criminally wrong, and how the known misdeeds could facilitate actual vote-fraud. These documents are long, but worth a read for some of you:

http://www.equalccw.com/lewisdeconstructed.pdf

http://www.equalccw.com/iowadialog.html

These are in the "White Papers" section of my main site
(http://www.equalccw.com/voteprar.html).

In brief: Diebold evaded the Federal Elections Commission software certification process in two key areas: the security flaws and "MS-Access as a hack tool" problem in GEMS, and in Windows CE which as custom software should have been certified, and wasn't on the direct orders of their head techie Talbot. This gave them unfettered access to the two most important areas where a votehack from outside the county offices by Diebold insiders could take place.

In other words, we've found the tunnel under the prison wall. We know who dug it, but we don't know (YET) whether or not any prisoners actually crawled through it. But just digging the tunnel should be enough to get senior management at Diebold *jailed* and at a minimum, the Diebold software immediately de-certified.

 

[Jim March]

Oh, as to where we're going with all this?

Check out the "Iowadialog" file above.

 

[Orthonym]

Jim, you may have to ask Mr. Liddy for the name of his surgeon!

He brags that his were so big, he had to have them chopped back a bit so he could ride a bike. ---- On second thought, I think yours are normal; the other folks don't have any whatsoever!

 

[Orthonym]

Oh, Jim, think about this:

I think I remember reading that the Schuetz-Staffeln forbade President Carter from riding dirt bikes. One is SO easy to kill when on a motorcycle!
Think: Wires at neck level; oil on the road; "oblivious" guys in big cars (Gee, officer, I just didn't see him!) etc etc ad infinitum et ad nauseam.

Be careful! Cultivate paranoid thinking! You DO have real enemies!

Molon Labe & Vaya con Dios!

 

[Don Galt]

I'm a software engineer by trade, and a security specialist.

About a decade ago some people at MIT proposed a voting system to allow electronic voting.

It used cryptographic authentication such that any voter could conduct a recount of all the votes on their home PC and verify that the votes were correctly counted, and that their personal vote had been counted. This was a decade ago.

It would have elimianted any question from elections by allowing anyone who wanted to to authenticate the election.

Of course, the government rejected it.

Machines like these-- where you walk in, vote and leave, and hope the machine counted your vote are ALWAYS going to be subject to vote tampering.

It is IMPOSSIBLE to make such a system difficult, let alone immune from vote fraud. It would be trivial for just about anyone involved with the election to tamper with votes, and to do so without it being detected.

The only way to have legitimate electronic voting is to have a system whereby each voter is identified (though still voting anonymously) and anyone can authenticate the results... otherwise, as they said in Russia-- it doesn't matter who they vote for, it only matters who counts the votes.

The improvement of electronic voting as we have it now is there no way to verify whether the votes were ever counted right!

I'm a fan of technology, but I won't waste my time voting with these machines. If its not a paper ballot, or a cryptographically secure system, as far as I'm concerned, its a fraud.

Any election based on these machines, in my opinion, is invalid.

 

[Orthonym]

NEWS!

I just read on www.blackboxvoting.com that their .org site has been pried loose and is coming back up shortly!