Utah Election Clerk 'in Shock' About Busby/Bilbray E-Voting

[BradBlog]

Over the weekend, The BRAD BLOG was ported over to new (much faster, much better) software which will allow a number a great improvements to design and other elements over the next couple of weeks. News on that later. Apologies to those who tried to get in this morning, when a "glitch" accidentally discovered in the new software took us down for a few hours. We should never have hired Diebold to help us make this upgrade. -- Brad

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Utah Election Clerk 'in Shock' About E-Vote Security Breach in Busby/Bilbray Election!
Emery County's Bruce Funk is Stunned by San Diego County Procedures Allowing Diebold Voting Machines to be Sent Home with Poll Workers Prior to last Tuesday's Special Run-off Election for the U.S. House
23-Year County Clerk Who Allowed a Security Analysis Uncovering the Most Alarming Diebold
Vulnerability to Date Sends a Letter to The BRAD BLOG…

Bruce Funk, the 23-year Emery County, Utah county clerk who allowed computer security experts Harris Hursti and Doug Thomspon to examine the Diebold AccuVote TSx voting systems forced on him by the state last March — which led to the discovery of a massive security vulnerability in all Diebold touch-screen systems, as originally broken by The BRAD BLOG, and subsequently followed up by New York Times, NEWSWEEK, NPR and many other MSM outlets — writes in with his concerns about the results of last week's special election in San Diego between Francine Busby and Brian Bilbray to replace Randy "Duke" Cunningham in CA's 50th U.S. House congressional district.

(All of our reports on that race, so far, in which San Diego county blatantly defied the CA Sec. of State's own security mitigation requirements, not to mention common sense, by sending the voting machines home with poll workers days and weeks prior to the election can be read here: )

Funk writes: "Brad, After reading your articles on the Busby/Bilbray Election, I am in shock!"...

FULL STORY, COMPLETE LETTER:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2950

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And in case you missed these over the weekend...
AP: Diebold Lobbyist Donated $10,000 to Ohio's J. Kenneth Blackwell…

One might have thought that Ohio's blatantly partisan state election administrator, Republican Sec. of State and now-gubernatorial candidate J. Kenneth Blackwell would have hit his ethical rock-bottom long ago. But think again…

URL: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2938

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NY Times' Bob Herbert: 'Kerry Almost Certainly Won Ohio'
URL: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2949

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Paper's Associate Publisher Admits They Blew it on RFK Jr. Story Coverage…
URL: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2941

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[Rainscents]

1. Brad, your doing excellent work as usual... Thank you!

[helderheid]

2. OKAY. Really weird to say this to YOU!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1409972

[helderheid]

3. BAH for weirdness

[BradBlog]

5. Whoops! :-)

Looks like you beat me helderheid! :-) Sorry about that!

I got pulled away by a chain of phone calls (more details on BRAD BLOG soon) after I posted originally on the blog, and then didn't notice you had already posted it before I got the chance.

Either way, thanks for doing so!

Brad

[Paradise]

7. YOUR post is the one I found.

I keep repeating that many of us are not on DU 24/7, and, therefore, "dupes" are good, actually "necessary". Thanks BradBlog.

[McCamy Taylor]

4. I emailed the editor who admitted the press was slow to pick up story.

When the WH puts together a package like

1. Brief Congress on Haditha, 2. Announce a Gay Marriage Ammendment, 3. Have new Canadian buddies arrest muslin terror cell, 4. Have Ann Coulter act like a bigger fool than ever and 5. Bomb the hell out of Zarqawi

all in one week, if is easy for the press to get distracted from a story like Election 2004 Stolen. This was the administration's intention all along. Congress could have been briefed about Haditha any time between now and March when Time broke the story.

[bleever]

6. There's a lot of election work that isn't following rigorous standards.

Someone needs to keep an eye on this stuff.