How to Rig an Election
With the mid-term elections coming up, we must keep our eyes and ears open for election fraud. No matter what your political leaning, this affects everyone.
Princeton researchers have produced a video to demonstrate security flaws in a Diebold electronic voting machine. These flaws allow electronic voting machines to be rigged to steal votes. (Thanks for sending, Corinne!)
That’s what can be done from the outside.
But what it’s already programmed on the inside? The video reminded me of an interview I heard a few years ago with a programmer who claimed he had written vote fraud software for the Republicans. A little digging, and I found the general bits of the story.
Curtis says that Feeney “was very specific in the design and specifications required for this program.”
“He detailed, in his own words, that; (a) the program needed to be touch-screen capable (b) the user should be able to trigger the program without any additional equipment (c) the programming to accomplish this needed to stay hidden even if the source code was inspected.”
At Just a Fly on the Wall, he notes:
What I did not anticipate was that this country would allow the placement of voting machines where the source code was not provided. The programs were pre-compiled (you have no idea what is in them or what hidden triggers exist), and where no paper trail would be required to check their accuracy. Any moron could build a voting program that could flip the vote under those circumstances and no amount of testing could discover the deception.
Video of Clint Curtis’ sworn testimony before the US House Judiciary Members in Ohio
He passed a lie detector test on all of this, but it doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere.
Wow! I see that Clint Curtis ran – and won by a landslide! – in the Democratic Florida Congressional Primary. He’s running against Tom Feeney! Good for him!
By the way, Feeney isn’t just a regular Republican interested in the workings of machines. He is one of those who played golf in Scotland on Jack Abramoff’s money (remember? DeLay? Ney?). He was been named the third most corrupt member of Congress by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. Connect the dots, please.