{"article":{"id":116695,"heading":"LA County E-Votes at Risk of Crack","author":"more rational","created":"2004-09-10 03:57:49","modified":"2004-09-10 04:00:11","last_modified":"Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:00:11","article":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><p>FOR THE COMPLETE STORY, CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW. <br><br> Issue: Manipulation technique found in the Diebold central   tabulator -- 1,000 of these systems are in place, and they count up to two million votes at a time. <br><br>   By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created. This set of votes can be changed, so that it no longer matches the correct votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set. It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks.   <br><br> This program is not \"stupidity\" or sloppiness. It was designed and tested over a series of a dozen version adjustments. <br><br> Public officials: If you are in a county that uses GEMS 1.18.18,   GEMS 1.18.19, or GEMS 1.18.23, your secretary or state may not have told you about this. You're the one who'll be blamed if your election is tampered with. Find out for yourself if you have this problem: Black Box Voting will be happy to walk you   through a diagnostic procedure over the phone. E-mail Bev Harris or Andy Stephenson to set up a time to do this. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","contact":"","link":"http:\/\/www.blackboxvoting.org\/?q=node\/view\/78","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"Be warned, there's an INSANELY STUPID security hole in Diebold's GEM system.  This is in use for early voting in Los Angeles County.","numcomment":0,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/","filesize":null,"article_url":"\/news\/2004\/09\/116695.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[]}