[ale] OT: electronic voting info

[Tom & JaVonn]

This is from a public document just released in the past week.  If you'd like a copy (and won't be offended that it's in doc format) just email me offlist.
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2.The Harris team lead programmer publicly challenged Georgia officials to allow a demonstration of the vulnerability of Diebold software.

On August 22, the lead programmer on the Harris team attended a meeting held by the Georgia Secretary of State's office for the state's Congressional delegation. She questioned the presenters knowledgeably and aggressively, and in the process uncovered even more startling revelations1 about Georgia's flawed voting systems. Ultimately, she challenged the Elections Division and Dr. Britain Williams, Georgia's certifier, to allow her and a team of experts to demonstrate how votes can be manipulated and the machines hacked. Unfortunately, neither Diebold nor the State has granted immunity from prosecution under DMCA or other copyright and trade secret laws so the demonstration can take place.
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The question is not whether it's sane or not, but whether the states and companies involved have legal means to keep the current system in place.  Would YOU like to be sued by Diebold or the State of Georgia?  Anybody got a good lawyer to recommend???

Tom
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 18:29:53 -0400
da Black Baron <dbaron13 at atl.bellsouth.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 14:01, Tom & JaVonn wrote:
> > Doug / Geoffrey:
> > 
> > As I hear it, the Sec Of State kept adding more requirements, and most importantly would not release her from the DMCA implications (code was retrieved from Diebold's ftp site).
> > 
> 
> That's completely insane- for a real-world test of the voting machine's
> integrity.  As if 1) someone intent on hacking and fixing an election
> would be concerned with "DMCA implications", and 2)The whole attempt at
> cracking the system would be chock full of "DMCA implications", even if
> attempted from the ground-up with no inside info leaked from Diebold's
> ftp site (and how can they claim privilege for code they published
> themselves- however stupidly- on the internet?).
>  

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