Tony Pierce, filling in for Andrew Malcolm (columnist and Laura Bush's former press secretary) at Los Angeles Times' "Top of the Ticket" blog picks up (with attribution, gracias) on our scoop earlier this week about the 100% unverifiable, yet highly hackable Diebold touch-screen e-voting machines out of Van Wert County, Ohio, now for sale, on the cheap, at eBay...
You really can get anything on EBay, even electronic voting machines proved to be easy to corrupt for purposes of voting fraud.
Brad Friedman of the Brad Blog first noticed that "more than 10" AccuVote-TS voting machines, built by Diebold, were being sold on the online auction site for the buy-it-now price of $1,200 (plus $50 shipping and handling).
The machines are used and don't come with user's manuals, power supplies, batteries or memory cards, which may explain their discounted price. However, for those who wish to rig elections, machines like these are priceless.
Friedman was contacted by the seller, who told him that he had more than 100 of the electronic voting machines that were originally used in Van Wert County, Ohio.
AccuVote-TS voting machines were also used in New Jersey, when a professor at Princeton demonstrated how easy the Diebold machines were to manipulate for nefarious means.
Pierce offers more information in his piece on that landmark Princeton hack from September 2006 and the hackability of these systems in general.
Long time readers of The BRAD BLOG likely recall the Princeton hack came about when VelvetRevolution.us (as co-founded by The BRAD BLOG) gave the Diebold touch-screen system to computer scientists there for the --- at the time --- highly secretive, first-of-its-kind examination, after we'd received the machine from a source of ours. We originally broke the story of that hack exclusively both here at The BRAD BLOG and in a slightly shorter version at Salon.
The alarming hack --- which demonstrated how a virus could be inserted into one of these systems and invisibly flip the results of an entire election --- received a great deal of attention from the mainstream media at the time, and was even covered in a live video demonstration on Fox "News". (See that video at right.)
Though the Princeton hack was on a Diebold AccuVote TS (with no so-called "Voter Verifiable Paper Audit Trail" printer) versus the TSX model (with VVPAT) being sold now on eBay, the many ways available to game them in order to flip election results with very little possibility of detection are essentially the same...
We're delighted to see "our hometown paper", the LATimes, pick up the Diebold/eBay story, since they haven't, um, exactly led the way in coverage of e-voting concerns over the years, despite the importance of California to the nation as a whole when it comes to setting standards and security procedures for these systems. Unverifiable, oft-failed, easily manipulated touch-screen e-voting systems identical or similar to the ones now for sale on eBay are still, incredibly, used by some 20 to 30% of the nation's voters, even after everything we've learned about them --- and the thousands of pages we devoted to those warnings here --- over the years.
The BRAD BLOG has contacted the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC), as well as CA Sec. of State Debra Bowen and former OH Sec. of State Jennifer Brunner (who both commissioned landmark independent studies of these same Diebold touch-screen systems and strongly recommended against their use in any election based on those findings) for comment on this matter. We're curious if they are as concerned about the availability of these machines to the general public as we are, since we can think of a number of ways in which they could potentially be used nefariously in advance of the 2012 elections.
While we've been promised a response from the EAC (though have yet to receive it), we have not yet heard back from either Bowen or Brunner. If we receive response from any of them, of course, we will update as appropriate.


Sunday 'Close Enough' Toons
A Pretty Weak 'Strongman': 'BradCast' 10/30/25
'Green News Report' 10/30/25
Proposal for 'First Politically Viable Wealth Tax' Takes Shape in CA: 'BradCast' 10/29/25
Monster Storm, Endless Wars, Gamed Elections:
'Green News Report' 10/28/25
Let's Play 'Who Wants
Sunday 'Cartoonists Dilemma' Toons
Exiled NOAA Scientists Resurrect Critical Disaster Database: 'BradCast' 10/23/25
'Green News Report' 10/23/25
Trump-Allied GOP Partisan Buys Dominion Voting Systems: 'BradCast' 10/22/25
Trump, Republican Law(lessness) & (Dis)Order: 'BradCast' 10/21/25
'Green News Report' 10/21/25
Celebrating 'No Kings': 'BradCast' 10/20/25
Sunday 'How It Started' Toons
SCOTUS Repubs Appear Ready to Gut Rest of Voting Rights Act: 'BradCast' 10/16/25
'Green News Report' 10/16/25
The 'Epstein Shutdown' and Other Autocratic Nightmares: 'BradCast' 10/15/25
Group Vows to Block MO's GOP U.S. House Gerrymander: 'BradCast' 10/14/25
Trump Labor Dept. Warns Trump Policies Sparking Food Crisis: 'BradCast' 10/9/25
Trump's Losing Battles: 'BradCast' 10/8/25
Trump, Roberts and His Stacked, Packed and Captured SCOTUS: 'BradCast' 10/7/25
Trump Attempting His 'Invasion from Within': 'BradCast' 10/6/25
Biden Budget Expert: Mass Firings in Shutdown 'Illegal': 'BradCast' 10/2/25
Why is DOJ Suing 'Blue' States for Their Voter Databases?: 'BradCast' 10/1/25
VA GOP VOTER REG FRAUDSTER OFF HOOK
Criminal GOP Voter Registration Fraud Probe Expanding in VA
DOJ PROBE SOUGHT AFTER VA ARREST
Arrest in VA: GOP Voter Reg Scandal Widens
ALL TOGETHER: ROVE, SPROUL, KOCHS, RNC
LATimes: RNC's 'Fired' Sproul Working for Repubs in 'as Many as 30 States'
'Fired' Sproul Group 'Cloned', Still Working for Republicans in At Least 10 States
FINALLY: FOX ON GOP REG FRAUD SCANDAL
COLORADO FOLLOWS FLORIDA WITH GOP CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
CRIMINAL PROBE LAUNCHED INTO GOP VOTER REGISTRATION FRAUD SCANDAL IN FL
Brad Breaks PA Photo ID & GOP Registration Fraud Scandal News on Hartmann TV
CAUGHT ON TAPE: COORDINATED NATIONWIDE GOP VOTER REG SCAM
CRIMINAL ELECTION FRAUD COMPLAINT FILED AGAINST GOP 'FRAUD' FIRM
RICK SCOTT GETS ROLLED IN GOP REGISTRATION FRAUD SCANDAL
VIDEO: Brad Breaks GOP Reg Fraud Scandal on Hartmann TV
RNC FIRES NATIONAL VOTER REGISTRATION FIRM FOR FRAUD
EXCLUSIVE: Intvw w/ FL Official Who First Discovered GOP Reg Fraud
GOP REGISTRATION FRAUD FOUND IN FL






























