Remote Control Of Elections?

[kpete]

Even A Remote Chance?

By Pokey Anderson
July 2006

Imagine sitting in your favorite easy chair with a remote control, and being able to just push EJECT and get George Bush out of office. Or, let’s say you’re on your laptop, and you can dial up a regime change.

“Hmm,” you say, “I’m feeling like blue today. Blue is a nice color. I think I’d rather have Kerry for president.” Let’s say you’re up late, it’s November 2nd, you see that Kerry is losing in Ohio, and you say, “the HELL with that!” So, with your laptop, you dial into the tabulator for, let’s just say, 41 of 88 counties in Ohio. And, you switch 14 votes per precinct from Bush to Kerry. Voila. Kerry wins.

Could that happen?

Or, um, the other way around—Kerry is winning, and someone dials in and changes a dozen or so votes in each of roughly half the precincts in Ohio, and VOILA, Bush wins Ohio. (A flip of a dozen votes in 5,000 precincts would result in a net change of 120,000 votes in Ohio, more than the tallied margin that separated the two candidates.)

Remote control of elections? Science fiction, right? Start playing the Twilight Zone music? Not exactly.


much more at:
http://www.votersunite.org/info/EvenARemoteChance.asp
http://www.votersunite.org/info/EvenARemoteChance.pdf

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

1. can I borrow the remote? n/t

[Kip Humphrey]

2. THANK YOU POKEY for reminding us how it was done

So much energy, so much effort is focused on the machine on which we vote, Opscan or DRE, when, in fact, that is and was soooo irrelevant!

Digital (Vote Processing Systems) for Dummies
(4.65Mb .ZIP file containing Powerpoint presentation not requiring MS-Powerpoint to display)

Thank You, Pokey, for all you do!

Never forget: those in power, who control the levers of our votes, will not relinquish their power and control easily. To think otherwise is to underestimate the reality to which we are all subject and risks self-defeat by delusion.

It takes someone's intent to design voting systems that flip votes and steal elections. It doesn't occur by chance. Learn, teach, and spread the word. It will take all of us to take our country back.

[Pokey Anderson]

3. Hey, thanks! kpete and kip too!

I first wrote that piece 18 months ago, then revised and expanded it, just posted this week.

I've been getting some nice feedback on it.

If it weren't for the DUers, I'm sure I would have missed important leads, articles and sources.

Here's the illustration.



EVEN A REMOTE CHANCE?

[Pokey Anderson]

4. One voting machine company has Wireless in its name

(a few points from the article)

Advanced Voting Solutions, a company just down the road from Diebold's election division, is so proud of its wireless capabilities, it put wireless into the name of its DRE.

They're called WINvote™. The "WIN" means "Wireless Information Network," the company explains.

"The wireless LAN used by the touchscreen machines enables the technicians to program 1,000+ machines simultaneously."

...

“Last minute corrections or changes to a ballot can be made quickly and simply by regenerating and redownloading the edited database to multiple units through AVS exclusive Wireless Information Network (WIN).”

Only two states completely prohibit wireless in election systems.

Avi Rubin: "I think that as bad as some of the voting machines are in terms of security, having wireless capability is a total disaster. I can't think of a worse idea."

[Pokey Anderson]

5. kick