BBV: Diebold Targeted By Electronic Civil Disobedience

[althecat]

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0310/S00237.htm

For Immediate Release: Tuesday, October 21, 2003

DIEBOLD TARGETED WITH ELECTRONIC CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE

Swarthmore, Pa. -- Defending the right of a fair, democratic election, Why War? and the Swarthmore Coalition for the Digital Commons (SCDC) announced today that they are rejecting Diebold Elections Systems' cease and desist orders and are initiating an electronic civil disobedience campaign that will ensure permanent public access to the controversial leaked memos.

Earlier this week, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced that it will defend the right of Online Privacy Group, the Internet service provider for San Francisco Indymedia, to host links to the controversial memos. Going one step further, Why War? and SCDC members are the first to publicly refuse to comply with Diebold's cease and desist order by continually providing access to the documents.

"These memos indicate that Diebold, which counts the votes in 37 states, knowingly created an electronic system which allows anyone with access to the machines to add and delete votes without detection," Why War? member Micah explained.

Although the reasons for individual engagement in the civil disobedience vary, the consensus between the two groups is that the public availability of these documents must be protected at any cost.

Thus, through active electronic civil disobedience, Why War? and SCDC will bring to light the usually silent acts of suppression and censorship. The result will be a permanent and public mirror of the memos: documents whose public existence challenges the assumed presence of democracy in America.

LINKS AND MORE HERE....

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0310/S00237.htm

[Greyskye]

1. Good on them!

"And the truth shall set you free"

[JohnGideon]

2. Excellent News!

This is great! Now to get people to read and understand what happened and what is going on.

[leftchick]

3. woo hoo...

more mud for Liebold to wade through!!

:bounce:

[Andy_Stephenson]

5. Yes...it looks as if

they have their own quagmire.

[never cry wolf]

4. This is great!!

I think that Diebold may have a bit of a dilemma on their hands. If they push too hard or try for a court order maybe the mass media picks up on it.

[creativelcro]

6. the media would

definitely pock it up.. See what Jim March has been saying at this site... -C

[gristy]

7. Well, bless SCDC

The Diebold emails AND the search engine are back on line!!!!

# hits for "incorrect": 347
# hits for "wrong": 712

[althecat]

8. Warning... to prevent this thread being locked.... don't link to the memos

By way of background these memos have been doing a merry spin around the globe for several months.

That's why I linked above to the press release. I am fairly sure given past reactions on this subject that the mods will take a dim view of any direct links...

al

[shirlden]

9. I e-mailed the Dean of Swarthmore

Please check out the Why-War website and send e-mail showing support for the action to the Dean. This is serious help for the BBV cause. I have a niece who recently graduated from this college and it is a good one.

:bounce:

[starroute]

24. Text of request for support

From the Slashdot thread on this issue:

You can have a real effect on what is going to happen. Please take a few minutes to help us out with this action.

Here's how to help:

1) The students engaging in this civil disobedience are meeting with the Dean of their college Wednesday, October 22nd at 4pm. We need you to email *nice* and *supportive* emails to rgross1 (at) swarthmore.edu and cc them to info (at) why-war.com *before* October 22nd at 4pm EST. Please help Dean Bob Gross understand the importance of this issue!

[JohnGideon]

26. Done

I kept it nice and thanked the students and faculty for their support.

[gristy]

10. kick

:kick: Some good news here folks.

[Spazito]

11. This is great news!

The drip, drip, drip is happening with BBV now, just as it is with Bush's crimes! I love it!

[grasswire]

12. has Bev posted today?

I haven't seen any posts from her.

[nostamj]

13. check your PMs.... n/t

[Kelvin Mace]

18. She's around, but I have told her to stay away

and finish the last two chapters. I am being the evil taskmaster, so blame me. <s>

David Allen
Publisher, CEO, Janitor
Plan Nine Publishing
http://www.plan9.org

[ParanoidPat]

22. Thanks David......

......Good call! :evilgrin:

[qwertyMike]

14. Can I host those e-mails here in Canada??

They are PDF's aren't they? I can host them from my home.

[nostamj]

15. you can download the PDFs from

www.blackboxvoting.com

chapters 1-9 were up and available today, #10 is due soon.

[gristy]

17. check your email Mike

.

[qwertyMike]

19. uuuuuh?

[rman]

33. the memos are html, the book is pdf

the memos can be found at and/or via

http://www.why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold.html

(edit: removed direct links)

more links possibly in
http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/10/22/0142252.shtml?tid=103&tid=126&tid=153&tid=172&tid=99

as said, the book can be found at http://blackboxvoting.com

[Generic Other]

16. Oh baby, my favorite outhouse reading material

Thanks Al. Fascinating stuff.

[fsbooks]

20. All available on gnutella using p2p file sharing software

Yes, that scourge of the RIAA:

The memos....

The Chapters...

including the software (Diebold Voting Software - GEMSIS.rar)

[RedEagle]

21. Standing up to Bullies

Is best for Democracy.

Kick!

[starroute]

23. This story is also up on Slashdot

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/10/22/0142252.shtml?tid=103&tid=126&tid=153&tid=172&tid=99

And the story just below that is "Observer Pans Touchscreen Voting Test."

http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/03/10/22/0057244.shtml?tid=103&tid=126&tid=99

riversidevoter writes "I recently observed the Logic and Accuracy 'test' given to the touchscreen voting machines in Riverside CA. Riverside County uses voting machines and software from Sequoia Voting Systems. The voting kiosks do not produce a voter-verified paper trail. As a computer programmer familiar with software testing, I was really disappointed at what I saw."

[althecat]

30. Slashdot link goes up..... memos quickly become unavailable...

But fear not. The Slashdot community is busy mirroring them.... by the time this is finished Whackamole and Liebold will have their work cut out for them :)

[creativelcro]

25. PLEASE, LET'S NOT FORGET

that Diebold is only the typ of the iceberg... The other companies are probably as bad! We just don't happen to have memos from them, which may mean simply that they are better than Diebold at covering their track...
This is all good, but it has to go well beyond Diebold. Even if Diebold suddenly disappeared from the face of the planet, new companies would replace it and do exactly the same thing, unless the broader rules are changed!
-C

[hunter]

27. I second that...

Diebold is not the only problem.


There has been an error in program module "vote"
Election data may be corrupted.
Your democracy may need to be rebooted.


:kick:

[Myra]

28. Fantastic!

Thank you for posting this!

[ConsAreLiars]

29. From drips to waves

YES! Magazine http://www.futurenet.org/ introduces an article by Palast and Howard this way: "The techniques that brought us Florida 2000 are catching on across the U.S. Add unverifiable electronic voting, and we could see the most questionable election yet. How do we reclaim our vote?" http://www.futurenet.org/27government/palast.htm

This a large and significant issue, and it will continue to draw together a large and significant coalition. It is being addressed on several fronts and in several (occasionally fractious) ways. Different folks are bringing, and will bring, different strategies and tactics to bear. And even when there is disagreement about the details, each blow for democracy is a part of the whole.

This is one of the core issues that are defining a broad new alliance against all forms of tyrrany. We have our musicians, our news reporters, our visual artists, our researchers, our fact-checkers, our organizers, our essayists, our analysts, our agitators, our humorists, our film-makers, our radio hosts, class warriors from all political tendencies and many nations.

Not just drip, drip, drip; now waves are building.

[leftchick]

31. am kick

:kick:

[hang a left]

35. hmmmmmmmmmmmmm

I wonder what "Fredda Weinburg?" has to say for herself?

[shirlden]

32. This one needs a kick

:kick:

[RainDog]

34. Send this link to everyone you know who is studying

computer science across this nation. In solidarity with their fellow students, this could become a nation-wide mass movement.

[RedEagle]

36. Because Honest Voting

IS Democracy

Kick!

[bpilgrim]

37. Search them online as well as the Official 911 report --------- LINK

http://news.globalfreepress.com/search.cgi

psst... pass the word ;->

peace

[SaddenedDem]

38. Whoooo hooooo!!! You got the search back online!!!

Kudos!!!! I guess that means EFF offered to help ya' huh?

Good deal!

[bpilgrim]

39. thanks

:hi:

peace

[Changenow]

40. They can't be searched at Swarthmore now.

Diebold is swatting a flea, it will just jump somewhere else.

[spotbird]

41. Security crack

Here is an interesting email:

To: <[e-mail]>
Subject: RE: GEMS Connect to Data Base security crack
From: "Ken Clark" <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 23 May 2002 10:15:55 -0800
Importance: Normal
In-reply-to: <014001c2020f$e29e37e0$4e0956d1@diebold001>

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Yep. And if you throw your server in a swimming pool, you loose all files too. Oooooooo -- Scary stuff kiddies1.



This bug only makes sense in the context of Texas certification, as Jeff pointed out. The whole requirement is stupid beyond redemption. A user can put a DOS floppy in the drive and fdisk the hard drive. Is that a security breach too?



Whitman, I think there might be some flags in the file open dialog to prevent delete and change directory. Please look into this, and then set those flags if the Texas log printer entry is not null.



Ken



1Count Floyd was great





-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] On Behalf Of Tari Runyan
Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:11 PM
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: GEMS Connect to Data Base security crack



verified - scary thought

especially if they empty the recycle bin

----- Original Message -----

From: <[e-mail]>

To: <[e-mail]>

Sent: Friday, March 22, 2002 10:48 PM

Subject: GEMS Connect to Data Base security crack





> All versions, probably

> "Load" function -> Open with -> Right mouse click on gbf -> delete gbf,

etc.

>

> This is a security breach as no password is required to delete virtually

any

> file on the system, along with the ability to run any application, etc.

> We should limit the functionality of the Open With and Save As dialogs or

at

> least require the obligatory password prior to their invocation.

http://new.globalfreepress.com/diebold/lists/bugtrack.w3archive/200205/msg00153.html