McPherson gives conditional OK to Diebold voting machines (Calif)

[Kadie]

McPherson gives conditional OK to Diebold voting machines

Friday, February 17, 2006


(02-17) 18:53 PST SACRAMENTO, (AP) --


California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson gave conditional approval Friday for counties to use two voting machines produced by Diebold Election Systems that he had previously questioned.


McPherson's office said in December that the Diebold machines failed one of the 10 criteria he established for voting machines because the source coding, or computer language, on their memory cards was not reviewed by independent investigators.


The coding performs two critical tasks — securing ballot entries and later providing instructions to election officials on how to access and tally the votes.


Since then, Diebold submitted the machines to further testing by University of California, Berkeley security analysts, who concluded that some of the codes on the memory cards need to be rewritten for long-term use.


Any immediate worries can be addressed by ensuring there is strict security during voting, the analysts said.

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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2006/02/17/state/n175845S67.DTL

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. Oh crap!

There's no stopping this?

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

2. We're Fucked

I'm not going to waste my time voting this year.

It's time to leave the country.

[proud patriot]

3. Damnit

:grr:

[Earth_First]

4. Vote by absentee ballot!

If enough people vote by absentee ballot, they will get the message.

[AndyTiedye]

8. That Have Already Gotten The Message!

They KNOW We are NOT going to vote for them anymore,
so they HAVE to steal it or they're out of power and in prison.

[EFerrari]

5. He's testing us! Please, DU, stay alert for a Tuesday action.

MY VOTE WILL COUNT.

:nuke:

[Kadie]

6. Tuesday action?

What do you mean by a Tuesday action?

:shrug:

[EFerrari]

7. I mean, please look early Tuesday for a coordiated action

to stop this, Kadie.

Lots of different groups are getting together over this weekend to figure out what we can do.

Please stay alert -- check the forum -- because CA will need all our help.

:hug:

[Kadie]

9. Thank you.

I will keep an eye out. Thanks for the info.

:-)