Diebold Commits Massive Voter Fraud?

"For a demonstration I suggest you fake it. Program them both so they look the same, and then just do the upload fro [sic] the AV. That is what we did in the last AT/AV demo."
-Helpful suggestion from one Diebold employee to another

Below is an archive of e-mails from internal Diebold mailing lists. For those that don't know, Diebold is the company that makes many ATMs and touch-screen voting machines. However, recent evidence points towards many problems with these machines and with Diebold itself.

It all started with a study by computer science researchers at Johns Hopkins University that exposed several severe and fundamental flaws in the source code (electronic blueprint) of Diebold voting machines. Diebold claims that several of these flaws have been fixed in a very short period of time, and that other problems -- for example, that a person could use a credit-card sized "smart card" to cast an unlimited number of votes -- would be 100% percent negated by "proper security procedures". Diebold seriously expects the public to believe that poll workers will prevent a malicious person from sneaking an object that fits into a person's wallet into the voting booth.

Adding fuel to the fire, Diebold was unable to secure its own computer systems, and a malicious intruder made off with several years' worth of internal Diebold mailing lists. These lists contain lots of mundane back-and-forth between Diebold employees. However, they also contain some startling conversations between Diebold employees and outside parties, such as Florida poll workers:

"I need some answers! Our department is being audited by the County. I have been waiting for someone to give me an explanation as to why Precinct 216 gave Al Gore a minus 16022 when it was uploaded. Will someone please explain this so that I have the information to give the auditor instead of standing here "looking dumb"."

Below are links to other sites that are doing a good job of staying on top of this story. For now, I'm providing a mirror to the archive. Diebold has been attempting to shut down as many site as possible that are mirroring this content. I maintain this falls under "fair use" exemptions of copyright law, particularly the criticism, comment, [and] news reporting clauses. Voting is the foundation of democracy, and it is our duty to protect that right. Don't let them "misplace" your vote.

Other Resources