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Meet the Urosevich brothers, Bob and Todd. Their respective companies, Diebold and ES&S, will count (using both computerized ballot scanners and touchscreen machines) about 80 percent of all votes cast in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
Both ES&S and Diebold have been caught installing uncertified software in their machines. Although there is no known certification process that will protect against vote rigging or technical failure, it is a requirement of most, if not all, states.
And, according to author Bev Harris in her book, Black Box Voting, " . . . one of the founders of the original ES&S (software) system, Bob Urosevich, also oversaw development of the original software now used by Diebold Election Systems."
While I doubt there will be much of an issue in Clark County, as the machines are still ancient punch card thingies, this could be a very very big problem in the rest of Washington, as the electronic voting machines are replacing the punch cards all over the state. And Washington's a swing state too, so this is even better. Shit shit shit shit.
[edit:] I typed in the names of all the manufacturers on that list into Google. THEY'RE ALL INSECURE. *cries and packs her suitcase for Canada*
Meet the Urosevich brothers, Bob and Todd. Their respective companies, Diebold and ES&S, will count (using both computerized ballot scanners and touchscreen machines) about 80 percent of all votes cast in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
Both ES&S and Diebold have been caught installing uncertified software in their machines. Although there is no known certification process that will protect against vote rigging or technical failure, it is a requirement of most, if not all, states.
And, according to author Bev Harris in her book, Black Box Voting, " . . . one of the founders of the original ES&S (software) system, Bob Urosevich, also oversaw development of the original software now used by Diebold Election Systems."
While I doubt there will be much of an issue in Clark County, as the machines are still ancient punch card thingies, this could be a very very big problem in the rest of Washington, as the electronic voting machines are replacing the punch cards all over the state. And Washington's a swing state too, so this is even better. Shit shit shit shit.
[edit:] I typed in the names of all the manufacturers on that list into Google. THEY'RE ALL INSECURE. *cries and packs her suitcase for Canada*
