Concerning Riverside County, California, Supervisor Jeff Stone’s public, video taped “thousand to one” bet to Election Integrity advocates that they couldn’t find a hacker who could manipulate the county’s Sequoia voting system, and the acceptance of that challenge by noted Finnish hacker of Diebold systems Harri Hursti, the Press Enterprise’s Dan Bernstein wrote an amusing column last week which we meant to run previously. Here’s a bit of it now in any case…
And if Harri the Hacker succeeds, what then? Sayonara Sequoia? Hello Hanging Chad? And what’s this 1,000-to-1 odds business? Would Harri be paid in tax dollars? “I Voted” stickers? Jeff Stone press releases?
Even bigger question: Once Hot Rod Harri has hacked (or gotten thwacked), will we know once and for all that RivCo touch screens are untouchable or need to be touched up?
Also of note, last week the unapologetically rightwing San Diego Union-Tribune also ran an item on the challenge. Though it ran prior to the announcement that Hursti was happy to play along. We don’t believe they’ve followed it up since with the additional news.
Still waiting for Stone’s reply to the acceptance of the challenge, on Hursti’s behalf, by the DFA-Temecula/SAVE R VOTE folks. Last week, Stone and the rest of the RivCo supes were going wobbly on the offer. We’ll see if they wobble off the cliff entirely (and admitting, in the bargain, that their voting systems are not secure) before or after the holidays. The final public meeting, until after the new year, is this morning. We’ll let ya know if anything of note comes about.
I wanted to note an inaccuracy in the story posted on PE.com. It inaccurately described Harri Hursti as “reputed defanger of Diebold touch screens.” Mr. Hursti was made famous by “hacking” Diebold Optical Scan voting systems not touch screens as stated.
True that, Anon. But, of course, his landmark work in Emery County, UT in what became known as “Hursti II” was indeed on Diebold touch-screens. For whatever that distinction is worth 🙂
Jeff Stone of Riverside County is a wobbler, a flip-flopper, uninformed, ill-advised, and just plain full of crap.
Why are many wackos from Jeffie Gannon to Jeffie Stone so clueless?
Mommas don’t let your little idiots grow up to be Jeffies, and name them Sue … anything but Jeffie.
Republicans just realize the importance of a well placed lie that almost never gets challenged by the media. He never had the intention of making good on the bet.
Good for Hursti for holding him up to the light.
I don’t even have a name. But I Can destroy ANY machine with the cover off in ONE SECOND.
Wanna challenge me?