{"id":7650,"date":"2010-01-15T11:35:31","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T19:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=7650"},"modified":"2026-04-24T00:35:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T07:35:46","slug":"easily-hacked-diebold-systems-to-decide-toss-up-us-senate-special-election-in-ma-on-tuesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=7650","title":{"rendered":"Easily Hacked Diebold Systems to Decide ‘Toss-Up’ U.S. Senate Special Election in MA on Tuesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since writing today’s piece<\/a> for Upstate New York’s right-leaning Gouverneur Times<\/i>, a new poll has come out this morning showing the Republican Scott Brown now leading the Democrat Martha Coakley by 4 points<\/a> in the race for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by a Democrat named Kennedy for nearly 60 years.<\/p>\n

As of last night, when I filed the story with them, the latest survey from a Democratic-leaning pollster showed Coakley up by 8<\/a>, though a day or two earlier, Republican Rasmussen had Brown down only by 2 points<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Suffice to say it’s now officially “a toss-up,”<\/a> at least according to the Rothenberg Political Report, and to all the Dems and Reps now sweating out what was previously thought to have been an easy Democratic win.<\/p>\n

With the 60th “filibuster-proof” Senate seat now hanging precariously in the balance, I’m sure you’ll be delighted to hear that the winner will now be whoever Diebold declares it to be. The near-entirety of the state will vote next Tuesday on paper ballots to be counted by Diebold op-scan systems. The same ones used dubiously in the New Hampshire Primary in 2008, and the same ones notoriously hacked<\/a> — resulting in a flipped mock election — in HBO’s Emmy-nominated Hacking Democracy<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And to make matters even worse, the notorious LHS Associates — the private company with the criminal background<\/a> that has admitted to illegally tampering with memory cards<\/a> during elections, and which has a Director of Sales and Marketing who embarrassed himself with obscene comments<\/a> here at The BRAD BLOG<\/a> some years ago, resulting in his being barred from CT by their Sec. of State<\/a> — sells and services almost all of MA’s voting machines along with those in the rest of New England.<\/p>\n

Read my detailed coverage of the entire sad affair over at Gouverneur Times<\/i><\/a> today. And yes, here we go again…<\/p>\n

UPDATE 1\/18\/10:<\/strong><\/em> FOLLOW-UP: Election experts issue “Orange Alert”, what you can do to help protect the election, and a bunch of my interviews on all of the above, now here…<\/a><\/p>\n

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Since writing today’s piece for Upstate New York’s right-leaning Gouverneur Times, a new poll has come out this morning showing the Republican Scott Brown now leading the Democrat Martha Coakley by 4 points in the race for the U.S. Senate seat formerly held by a Democrat named Kennedy for nearly 60 years. As of last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,288,125,324,233],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-7650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dieboldpremier","category-health-care","category-massachusetts","category-ted-kennedy","category-us-senate"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7650\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7650"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=7650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}