{"id":9370,"date":"2012-06-24T15:46:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T22:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=9370"},"modified":"2012-06-24T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T22:45:53","slug":"bbv-told-to-remove-accentures-crap-on-a-stick-voter-registration-software-from-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=9370","title":{"rendered":"BBV Told to Remove Accenture’s ‘Crap-On-a-Stick’ Voter Registration Software From Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bev Harris of BlackBoxVoting.org<\/a> sends out the following notice<\/a> this morning…<\/p>\n

Amazingly, Accenture, which sold its crap-on-a-stick high-school sophomoric completely insecure malfunctioning voter registration software to a bunch of states, so unsuccessfully that Colorado refused to pay and others, like Wisconsin and Shelby County, bought out the source code in order to try to bandaid it into a functional system, has decided to issue a cease and desist against Black Box Voting for exposing its flawed software to the public. <\/p>\n

Last time a voting system company did a DMCA take-down notice (Diebold, in 2004) it got socked with punitive charges for abusing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, trying to use it to block distribution of material clearly published in the public interest. <\/p>\n

If you want a copy of the voter registration software I posted Thursday, might as well get it right now — and mirror it, torrent it, dropbox it, or whatever. I’ll probably pull it down by June 27, not because their claim is valid, but because there are higher priorities for spending my time during this election season and thanks to Slashdot and some pals in Europe, this software has now been widely mirrored elsewhere. <\/p><\/div>\n

The full takedown notice is here<\/a>. The “highly problematic” Accenture voter registration software — used by TN, WI, PA, CO, KS and others — is still posted here<\/a>, as of now if you’d like to download it, poke around into some of the source code, and\/or mirror it on your site.<\/p>\n

Other than “crap-on-a-stick high-school sophomoric completely insecure [and] malfunctioning”, Harris previously described the software this way: “This voter registration and voter history system has been widely criticized — in Colorado, where it reportedly assigned voters who are Republicans as Democrats, and vice versa, and in Tennessee where it has been proven to lose voter histories.”<\/p>\n

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