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- The Oakland Tribune scooped other newspapers yesterday on the story.
- Pennsylvania's Michael Shamos sequestered all Diebold touch-screens.
- California is invoking emergency procedures.
- The state of Iowa is trying to figure out a way to scrub Diebold
clean.

Harri Hursti has just come out with Hursti Report II, a Black Box
Voting project.

Here it is:
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVtsxstudy.pdf

A second study with 12 more defects will be released Monday May 15.

WHAT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THIS?

Back doors were found in three separate levels. They can be used one
at a time or combined for a deep attack that can permanently
compromise the Diebold touch-screens.

Almost nothing will work to ensure that machines that have already
been delivered have not been contaminated -- the very forensic procedures
that MIGHT identify tampering also wipe clean any evidence.

The procedures being used in Pennsylvania, California, and Iowa will
not necessarily work if the system has already been contaminated. Worse,
the very procedure needed to cleanse the system can just as easily
re-contaminate it.

Next week, Black Box Voting will release recommended solutions in
conjunction with a recommendation to pull all Diebold touch-screen machines off the shelf.

For more information, visit the following links:

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/27675.html

and to see what the Diebold lawyers are trying to do to Bruce Funk,
click here:

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/27671.html
(Scroll past the Georgia cluelessness to a transcript of the
retaliatory
meeting held to try to force Funk out of office.)

Diebold lawyers are also retaliating against Stephen Heller, trying to
put him in jail for leaking documents that have been compared in
importance to the actions of famed Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsburg. Click
here for the latest on Heller:

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/27423.html

and click here to donate to his defense fund:

http://www.hellerlegaldefensefund.com

(Diebold lawyer's vindictiveness has cost Heller his job and very
nearly his home. His courage in fighting for YOUR right to vote needs your
support.

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(We realize we just hit you up twice -- But really. Stephen Heller is
one of our personal heroes, and we put him first for a reason. Please read the
story about Diebold's attempt to put him in prison for leaking documents showing
they were planning a criminal defense budget for carrying out actions they had
already been told were illegal.)

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Well, what do you think... maybe this has already happened in a few places?

I bet most people would think so even if they didn't own a tinfoil hat.

I've really tried to read everything on these I could. Do I believe it might have happend already... yes. If I know one thing, anything with electonics can and do have glitches. Do I think it's a pre-planned conspiracy to change all of our votes .. or not count them, I dunno about that. Unless a huge conspiracy - which I get dubious about... they literally have the chance of changing it either way..

Yes I know the connection to who owns them. But, I mistrust them enough that I vote on paper ballots here.

The single thing that makes me raise an eyebrow is why they don't want anyone testing them. See, that's just not good.