Guest Blogged by John Gideon
On Friday’s (Sept. 15) show Lou and Kitty reported on the new Princeton University study and the lawsuit in Colorado to stop the use of e-voting machines. The BRAD BLOG reported on their inside access to the Princeton study earlier this week.
The director of the Princeton study, Ed Felten, was also interviewed live on CNN’s American Morning where he demonstrated the hack. FOX News also had him as well, and we’ll have that video in full shortly.
UPDATES: The Fox “News” video is now available here. Lou Dobb’s version of the virus hack is here:
A text-transcript of a shorter version of the report from Lou Dobbs Tonight follows in full…
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Princeton scientists spent the summer analyzing the Diebold AccuVote TS Electronic Voting Machine, the results were alarming, confirming the machine is very vulnerable to tampering.
EDWARD FELTEN, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: You could infect one machine, and before election, when the poll workers are setting things up, for the vote, they actually move memory cards from one machine to another, and they may propagate the virus.
PILGRIM: The Princeton group only studied one type of machine, that model will be used in 357 counties across the country by 10 percent of the voters in November. They say the vote can be easily manipulated without being detected.
The malicious software can modify all the records, audit logs, and counters kept by the voting machine. So that even careful forensic examination of these records will find nothing amiss.
Across the country, voter activists have participated in hearings and studies to point out that without a voter-verified paper trail, the results of electronic voting can be badly botched, either intentionally or unintentionally, through computer crashes or human error in running the electronic voting machine.
Some activists in Colorado are so concerned that they are suing to stop the use of electronic voting machines in November. The state uses machines used by Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia, and Hart. A suit has been has been filed on behalf of a group of Colorado citizens against the Colorado secretary of state, saying testing was not adequate. And they are calling for the electronic machines been to be decertified.
PAUL HULTIN, WHEELER TRIGG KENNEDY: The chairman of the state Democratic Party has called for the resignation of the secretary of state and for the use of absentee ballots in the election, because of the concern about the broken certification process at the secretary of state’s office.
PILGRIM: There is a hearing next week to seek a ruling from the judge to make absentee ballots available in November.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PILGRIM: And, Lou, activists say they have just enough time to get the absentee paper ballots printed before November.
DOBBS: And these machines, in these counties, about 10 percent of the total vote this fall? They don’t have an audit trail, a paper trail?
PILGRIM: No, they do not. And that’s the great worry. That you can lose the vote, and tamper with them and …
DOBBS: Kitty, thank you very much. Kitty Pilgrim.
THX John,.. for the info,..
Nice to see that Team Lou Dobbs is giving this issue some public exposure that will spread this story near and far.
Those of us who trashed our cable access,..in total exasperation with the MSM,.. would remain in the blind if your guys did not get the thread links out to us.
THX for your hard-work.
Go Colorado! But careful about those absentee ballots though – do you know where they go or who is processing them, who is supervising that process, what security controls there are and on what machines they are scanned? Here in Maryland we’ve got the Diebold scanners – from what I understand they may be as bad or worse. As of right now, I can’t find the security process for absentee ballots…
Paper, pencil, people…and abacus if necessary.
Wait, wait, I see something in your future Mr. Dobbs…yes…small plane…engine trouble…pilot, unconscious…
What’s the story line on Lou Dobbs? Doesn’t seem like your average, run-of-the-mill conservative!
Asking all these questions about illegal immigration, faulty elections, and the like!
All I can say is, Go Lou Go! Go get ’em!
See the latest Lou Dobbs episodes right here.
http://electiondefensealliance....loudobbssept06
Welcome home, Brad!!!
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Hey, Guys!
Guess whaaaaat?
(waiting for everyone to collectively say, “Whaaat?”)
Fox News just had Professor Felten demonstrating the experiment!!!!!
See my diary HERE (with YouTube video).
I think we’re about to achieve critical mass.
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Corruption in elections, corruption in appointees, corruption is the medium through which this administration marinates. Lets turn up the grill!!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14868608/
#6 Stop George… Great work, I Reccomended at DK. I hadn’t seen this at fox til I saw your post. Rated and commented at you tube too. Thanks for your work, to get this to more eyes!
#6 stop george— Thank you so much for giving us a way to see this. Never would have known about it if not for you ! One question… If Fox did this segment I have to wonder why. Do you think theres a chance the caca is about to hit the fan in a BIG WAY ? Again thank you !
Lou Dobbs is truly a moderate, he does not seem to be concerned with anything other than disseminating the truth (at least the truth as he sees it).
Our little conspiracy theory is going mainstream.
# 6 STOP George. I liked how they incorrectly pronounced it DIEbold instead of DEEbold 🙂 Nice work George and of course Brad and John Gideon.
WaPo says the November midterm election,..
could be,…. ummmmmmmmmmmm,.. a FREAKIN TRAIN WREAK !!!
http://votetrustusa.org/
OOPS,..
Direct link to above,..
http://votetrustusa.org/index.p...#038;Itemid=26
Diebold: Isn’t it interesting that Dieb means thief in German, along with these other German meanings:
larcenist, filcher, pilferer, purloiner, scrounger, stealer.
So, if you use, what the Germans call “Denglish” (using a word, combining both Deutsch and English) could Diebold be interpreted as “Old thief”?
Thank you, Lou Dobbs.
Sherry,.. Comment # 14,..
Diebold,.. the safe,..ty and secur(e),..ity blanket,..
for the grand thieves of all thieves,..
The INDUSTRIALISTS
The CORPORATIST
The CAPITALISTS
The FASCISTS
Diebold,.. Link,..
The ANTI-ROBINHOOD-ERS
and PRO-ROBBER BARONS.
From day one – protect the assets/toys of the rich from the grasp/hands of the poor.
I’m sure all of you good folks here already know about the case in California where Congress swore in a Candidate BEFORE the election “was certified” or “properly counted in the first place”.. combine that with “conservatives calling for skepticism in e-voting” and you have a recipie for an “installed conservative Congress” come November.
It works like this. You allow the public to “know” that these machines are hackable. Then you set out to get operatives to hack the right machines to push in the Repuke majority in November (we all know the Dems/3rds are taking over in November, the pugs have screwed up too bad this time). Any place that something goes terribly wrong and the Rethuglican manages to lose, you file a court case and get just the right precincts put into question. Once the vote favors the Crime Syndicate, you have Congress swear in the Repugnicant. Since the courts are powerless to do anything about it, all you have to do is pretend Congress (which is still full of criminals and right-wing nutjobs) accepts the “undisputed results”, saying the results from the precincts in question end up being moot. It’s not hard to toss around a few numbers and confuse the masses.
And, isn’t hijacking the election (again) a small price to pay to shield and protect the Chimp in Charge? We -all- know that if we get a Dem majority this November that troops are coming home IMMEDIATELY, and there’s a VERY good chance Shrubby is going to be Impeached. The rich white elite of this country won’t stand for that. And they have set the stage for a hostile takeover through “shady back-door activities”.
Watch..