The Cat That Controls New Hampshire Election Programming
Submitted by come and take it on Tue, 01/08/2008 - 09:48
Bev Harris is one busy lady, even more so lately. Have a look at her latest, very timely, blog entry which was also sent out as an e-mail to her list:
http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/71200.html?119...
(synopsis: John Silvestro and his small private business, LHS Associates, has the exclusive programming contracts for all New Hampshire voting machines, which combined will count about 81 percent of the vote tomorrow.)
Information is power, wield it wisely.
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Article about LHS company and Machines that will count ballots.
Here is an article that deals with issues Connecticut had with the machines in question. It also deals with this LHS company and it's involvement..sounds fishy to me. Here is an exerpt.
" The Secretary of State’s office reported that in the event of a glitch ballots were to be counted by hand. Elections officials in the towns we went to couldn’t locate any written protocols from the Secretary of State’s office; meanwhile two employees of LHS, the company providing the machines out of Massachusetts said they were supposed to be opening machines, removing memory cards, reprogramming memory cards and possibly even using back up machines they had hand carried to the polls. It was a security nightmare and at its core was a tolerance for the basic principles of outsourcing America’s elections to private companies."
http://talknationradio.com/?p=57
Here are some past "issues" with this company and diebold
Here is some info on this company and its dealings with Connecticut I believe. It also deals with the fact that apparently NO ONE knows how to hold a re-count. And this is America?...Crazy... Everybody hold on, this might be a rough ride. :O)
http://talknationradio.com/?p=57
As a programmer myself
I will confirm that the tech guys are correct. (assuming their observations about the EPROMs are correct).
While it is true that the EPROMs must be physically replaced with hacked EPROMs, that is trivial. (40 seconds, I timed myself).
If there's only ONE EPROM, 20 secs)
As to the memory cards, that's REALLY easy to hack, as described.
Also, being "semi-volatile", they can cover their own tracks.
I cannot believe that the state authorities haven't demanded or provided a voter confirmable (in real time) paper record.
I haven't voted since these things came into common use (ex-pat), so I never realized how foolish this situation is until this election.
America is in deep doo-doo, I'm afraid.
Thank you for all you are doing Bev.
We need more folks like this patroit in this campain.
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