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To: LindyBill who wrote (8125)	9/15/2003 4:41:41 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 793756

Somebody recently said that as he drove from Nevada to California he saw that somebody had put up a new sign: Welcome to California. You are now running for Governor!

To: LindyBill who wrote (8125)	9/15/2003 8:09:11 PM
From: MSI	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793756

The Supremes won't touch it. They got burned in the last debacle, saying in their decision, "not to be used as a precedent", i.e., it was a one-time thing, making them look entirely political. There's also a concern about getting electronic voting machines with secret programming and no paper audit trail. The ACLU will be doing an about-face pretty soon. The current crop of machines won't be accepted by the Secretaries of State: truthout.org "... 'stunning flaws' Rubin said the team found in Diebold's source code included voter smart cards that could be manipulated to cast more than one vote, software that could be reconfigured by malicious company workers or election officials to alter voters' ballot choices without their knowledge and machines that could be electronically broken into through remote access." "... in the past (critics of computerized machines) were part of the black box crowd and conspiracy theorists," Albowicz said. "No one is saying that now." " Aviel Rubin, technical director of the Johns Hopkins Information Security Institute, led a team of three computer scientists to examine source code for touch-screen voting machines made by Diebold. More than 40,000 Diebold voting machines are in use in 37 states. Most use touch-screen technology, while the rest use optical-scanning equipment, said Mike Jacobsen, a company spokesman. " Jacobsen confirmed that the source code Rubin's team examined was last used in November 2002 general elections in Georgia, Maryland and in counties in California and Kansas. " Within a half-hour of examining the code, Rubin's team found its first red flag. The password was embedded in the source code. "You learn (not to do) that in security 101," said Tadayoshi Kohno, one of the report's co-authors. "The designers didn't follow standard engineering processes."