HACKED: VIRUS IMPLANTED, SPREAD ON DIEBOLD TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING MACHINE!

[BradBlog]

HACKED: VIRUS IMPLANTED, SPREAD ON DIEBOLD TOUCH-SCREEN VOTING MACHINE!
New, First-of-Its Kind, University Study Reveals Malicious Code Can Be Easily Inserted into Voting Machine, Spread from One System to the Next, Resulting in Flipped Votes, and Stolen Elections…All Without a Trace Being Left Behind
Study Also Confirms that Voter Access Cards Can Be Created At Home to Defeat Security Protocols, Allowing Voters to Vote Multiple Times in a Single Election!

– Brad Friedman, EXCLUSIVE
– (Salon.com has posted a shortened version of my report right here: "Hack the vote? No problem," http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2006/09/13/diebold/)

A vote for George Washington could easily be converted to a vote for Benedict Arnold on an electronic voting machine and neither the voter, nor the election officials administering the election would ever know what happened. It wouldn't require a "conspiracy theory" or a "conspiracy" at all. It could be done by a single person with just a few moments of access to the voting systems.

Those new findings are detailed, and illustrated on video-tape, in a new first-of-its-kind study released by computer scientists and security experts at Princeton University today.

The scientific study has revealed, for the first time, that a computer virus can be easily implanted on an electronic voting machine which could, in turn, result in votes flipped for opposing candidates. The virus, as well, could be written to then spread itself from one machine to the next resulting in a stolen election. The malfeasance would likely never be discovered, the scientists have said.

Though the concept of stolen votes via electronic voting systems has been widely regarded as theoretically possible by experts up until now, a top-secret four-month long hands-on study of an actual touch-screen voting system, by the scientists at Princeton, has confirmed the worst nightmares of elections officials and American voters…not to mention a voting machine company known as Diebold.

The BRAD BLOG has had exclusive access to the scientists and information being tested as the team's various hack attempts have been designed and carried out over the course of the study.

Working directly with a Diebold AccuVote TS touch-screen voting system, the computer scientists have been able to implant a nearly-undetectable virus onto a touch-screen voting system, managing to successfully alter a voter's ballot — after it's already been confirmed and cast — in order to flip the vote so that it is recorded for a candidate other than the one the voter had intended.

According to the study's team leader, Edward W. Felten, a professor at Princeton's Department of Computer Science, the report confirms – and records in a video-taped demonstration – that such a malicious virus could be easily inserted onto a Diebold touch-screen voting system by a single individual "with just one or two minutes of unsupervised access to either the voting machine or the memory card" used with the system to store ballot definitions and vote tabulations.

The virus, as programmed by the Princeton team, could then spread from one voting system to the next depending on the way the machine in use is configured, or the way in which votes are tabulated in any particular jurisdication.

"We've demonstrated that malicious code can spread like a virus from one voting machine to another," said Felten in an exclusive interview, "which means that a bad guy who can get access to a few machines — or only one — can infect one machine, which could infect another, stealing a few votes on each in order to steal an entire election." ...

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[chat_noir]

1. tie this with the Princeton study

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2129557

[Wonk]

9. It's the same Princeton study

[texpatriot2004]

2. Thanks Brad. K&R nm

[Ioo]

3. Solve the issue, We fight back, flip them our way...

It is not hard...

[KatieB]

23. Now that's got my vote

...pun intended

[Roy]

28. Got mine too. (notice no smilie or sarcasm tags)!!

[wakeme2008]

4. Zzzzzz watched the video

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2129557

already... :rofl:

[helderheid]

14. :P Between this video and 9/11 press for truth - YOWZA!

[magellan]

5. {{Sigh}} Just more evidence of what we've known

...for years.

There's stacks of evidence pointing to collusion and outright treason by Bush** and the Repugs on a multitude of criminal activity, including this one. And it grows every day. But that evidence may as well be nonexistent for all the attention it gets because the Repugs are in charge of everything and there's little courage among other elected officials to put their careers on the line.

K&R as another important footnote in the downfall of the USA.

[NoSheep]

7. Yep. And they called me a conpiracy theo.......

:eyes:

[lonestarnot]

8. Yes, but the demonstrations were not so clear like this evidence.

[magellan]

13. The evidence was there long before '04.

If they needed further proof it was readily available. CA '02 for example, and the successful lawsuit that followed.

Too few cared to raise the alarm, much less investigate. Even the DNC has only very recently come on board with the idea that these machines are bad news despite the fact that Dean himself participated in a hands-on display of how easily hacked Diebold is over two years ago.

[lonestarnot]

24. Damn numbnuts!

[NoSheep]

6. Thank you for posting this. K&R. Spread it to all you know!!!

:kick:

[lonestarnot]

10. keeping it kicked!

Thanks bradblog!

[robertpaulsen]

11. K & R! Important story!

:kick:

[Ellipsis]

12. K&R

[earth mom]

15. K & R!

:kick:

[BeFree]

16. You gotta be kidding

You mean to tell me that the machines which tally our votes can be corrupted?

Is this why the exit-polls from 2004 that called for Kerry to win and were later changed by rove et al, to make it look like Kerry actually lost?

Because, you do see, if these machines can be so easily corrupted and the republicans knew they could be corrupted, the republicans would have corrupted them, right?

Don't you think?

[bleever]

17. Sure, they had means, motive and opportunity,

but they would never have gone that far, would they?

Karl Rove on election night 2004:

[fooj]

22. That picture makes my blood boil.

:grr:

[lonestarnot]

25. As it does mine fooj! As it does mine.

[DemonFighterLives]

31. Criminals in our house

Treasonous bastards deserve tar and feathers and be jailed.

[obreaslan]

46. What was that they said after the 2004 election....

That the crazy people on the left think Karl Rove is sitting in the basement of the White House rigging the voting machines... :eyes:

[truedelphi]

41. Both Greg Palast and myself

Have said since forever that the Ricco racketeering laws should be
applied to everyone in on the game

Here is the short list: Jeb Bush (Florida governor)
Katherine Harris (Sec of State Fla)
Karl Rove
Andy Card (WH Chief of Staff)
Blackwell

Numerous election officials all over the country -especially those inside the
Counties' Registrar of Voters and Election Departments

Feel fre to nominate those officials that you personally know of in your locale
(Didn't put George Bush in the mix - would he really have to know anything?
Far better tohave his Alfred E Newman face react with its usual nervous tics
and tweaks than have him know too much|)

[AntiFascist]

18. K&R, democracy is in trouble! n/t

[lonestarnot]

19. Big trouble if not already gone.

[NewJeffCT]

20. We should have kept it quiet and implanted the virus

steal a few votes for the good guy & gals.

[electropop]

38. That would (unlike all the pro-GOP anomalies) get huge press.

The plot would be rapidly uncovered, the perps hanged, and the vapor voting machines permanently banned. The last bit might make the rest worth it.

Perhaps a hack that "elects" Tom Tomorrow would demonstrate the point without stooping to GOP-like immorality.

[Wilms]

21. K & R n/t

[Danger Mouse]

26. All it would take is one...

Criminal to corrupt many machines.
If it were several criminals working in concert...

[Kurovski]

27. K&R & thank you Brad for all you do!

:kick:

[dusty64]

29. Hmmm, and NO

mention of this and the Noe case in my local rag. Anyone else?

[Dinger]

30. K & R

[madokie]

32. All should read this and watch the video

[doctor_garth]

33. why is this news now?

and not in 2004? And is Kerry finally going to call Bush an election thief on the Senate floor?

[Joanne98]

34. The opposition has only one argument left.

Okay YES it can happen BUT nobody would ever go thru that much trouble to do it. I can't wait until they're forced to use it.

[truedelphi]

42. One other argument - We are such honest nice decent

People and if you were an honest decent nice person you would trust us

I hear this one consistently from the Registrarof Voters' Officials

[The Count]

35. Tie this to "GOP supports W on wiretapping, tribunals etc"

This can easily spare them the bother to campaign.

[gully]

36. Simple solution. Steal an election for a Democrat.

This issue will be "fixed" in no time if that happens.

[Nikki Stone 1]

37. This study better make it to the national news

:)

[BradBlog]

43. Oh, it has... (n/t)

[Nikki Stone 1]

45. Glad to hear it, Brad

Kicking post

:kick:

[Pachamama]

39. SEND THIS INFO OUT TO EVERYONE YOU KNOW!!!

I did this morning and have had about 14 responses from friends and family who are really worried. A few of them had been disregarding concerns about the integrity of the machines, but after reading this, a few of them wrote me back and say they are really wondering now about the machines.

We have to get the truth out - especially if we are going to keep our democracy and keep elections honest.

:kick:

[SoCalDemGrrl]

40. Kick - a must read!!

[Up2Late]

44. GREAT! Good scoop! Here's a related story from yestreday

(And, as you might have guessed, Diebold sees no problem with this and blames poor training of Election workers)

Problems Found in Ohio Computer Voting

Listen to this story...(at link above)
by Pam Fessler

All Things Considered, September 13, 2006 · A report finds several bugs in the new voting system in Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The report says that poll workers were poorly trained in monitoring the new touch-screen voting machines, and there were discrepancies between the new paper-ballot backups and the votes recorded by the machines.

In the first thorough study of a paper-backed system -- often seen as an answer to concerns about touch-screen voting -- the nonpartisan Election Science Intistute found that about 10 percent of the paper ballots sampled were uncountable. And in Ohio, that's a big problem: The paper ballot is the official ballot if there's a recount....

(clip)

...In at least one instance, thermal paper was fed into the machine backward. The result was that, despite the printer working properly, nothing appeared on the sheets. Elsewhere, paper jammed, creating areas in which votes were written over one another.

The machine manufacturer, Diebold Election Systems, has dismissed the ESI report as "severely flawed" and says the company stands by it's equipment....

(more and the audio at link) <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6069712>