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Diebold
Voting Machines Proven Hackable,
Company's
Chief Resigns Amidst Furor
and Law Suits
Diebold, the controversial
electronic voting machine manufacturer, is coming off a tumultuous week.
Its chief executive, Walden O'Dell, resigned. It was hit with a pair
of class-action lawsuits charging insider trading and misrepresentation,
and a county in Florida concluded that Diebold's voting machines could
be hacked. The company...reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with
the California attorney general last year of a lawsuit alleging that
it made false claims about the security of its machines."
New York Times, 12/18/05
December 21, 2005
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O'Dell resigns
from voting machine maker Diebold
December 14 , 2005, USA
Today/Associated Press
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-12-14-diebold-odell_x.htm
The chairman and
chief executive of automated-teller and voting machine maker
Diebold quit on Monday. The company, which has come under fire for its
electronicvoting business, said in a statement that the resignation
of 60-year-old Walden W. O'Dell is effective immediately. Diebold, whose
main business is making ATMs and security systems, ventured into e-voting
after the Florida punch-card debacle of 2000. The company faced challenges
in the e-voting business - from concerns from California's top election
official and others about the machines' security and reliability to
controversy about O'Dell's support of President Bush.
County says electronic
voting machines can be hacked
December 15, 2005, USA
Today/Associated Press
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-12-15-opticalvoting_x.htm
Tests on an optical-scan voting system used around the country showed
it is vulnerable to hacking that can change the outcome of races without
leaving evidence of fraud, a county election supervisor said. The voting
system maker, Diebold Inc., sent a letter in response that questioned
the test results and said the test was "a very foolish and irresponsible
act" that may [have] violated licensing agreements. Diebold's letter
was...sent to the state of Florida, Leon County and the county election
supervisor, Ion Sancho. In one of the tests
conducted for Sancho and the non-profit election-monitoring group BlackBoxVoting.org,
the researchers were able to get into the system easily, make the loser
the winner and leave without a trace. In the other test, the researcher
who had hacked into the voting machine's memory card was able to hide
votes, make losers out of winners and leave no trace of the changes,
said BlackBox founder Bev Harris.
New tests fuel
doubts about vote machines
December 15 , 2005, Miami Herald
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/13410061.htm
A political operative with hacking skills could alter the results of
any election
on Diebold-made voting machines -- and possibly other new voting systems
in
Florida -- according to the state capital's election supervisor, who
said
Diebold software has failed repeated tests. ''That's kind of scary.
If there's no paper trail, you have to rely solely on electronic results.
And now we know that they can be manipulated under the right conditions,
without a person even leaving a fingerprint,'' said Sancho, who once
headed the state's elections supervisors association. Sancho said Diebold
isn't the only one to blame for hacker-prone equipment.
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