Diebold/Black Box Voting Update
/Remember that whole controversy over whether voting machines are secure? Looks like Black Box Voting has made some significant progress in showing that they aren't.
A test election was run in Leon County [Florida] on Tuesday with a total of eight ballots. Six ballots voted "no" on a ballot question as to whether Diebold voting machines can be hacked or not. Two ballots, cast by Dr. Herbert Thompson and by Harri Hursti voted "yes" indicating a belief that the Diebold machines could be hacked.At the beginning of the test election the memory card programmed by Harri Hursti was inserted into an Optical Scan Diebold voting machine. A "zero report" was run indicating zero votes on the memory card. In fact, however, Hursti had pre-loaded the memory card with plus and minus votes.
The eight ballots were run through the optical scan machine. The standard Diebold-supplied "ender card" was run through as is normal procedure ending the election. A results tape was run from the voting machine.
Correct results should have been: Yes:2 ; No:6
However, just as Hursti had planned, the results tape read: Yes:7 ; No:1
The latest version of BBV's newsletter says this all comes on the heels of the resignation of Diebold CEO Wally O'Dell, and an announcement of a stockholder class action suit. Further "hack testing" is coming up in CA. Stay tuned.