BBV: Learn how to rig/edit an election here...

[Andy_Stephenson]

Here are the latest detailed instructions.

Yes you too can rig an election.

http://www.equalccw.com/dieboldtestnotes.html

Demo prep

- Install GEMS.

Learn to bypass passwords

- Open GEMS, make a new vote database. Name it "password maker."
- The default password, which has been all over the Internet forever, is (all caps) "GEMSUSER"
- Then, close out and click your C drive -- Program Files -- GEMS -- LocalDB. Double click the "password maker" file. If you have MS Access on your computer, the Password maker file will open right up.
- Go to the "Operator" table and copy the encrypted password.

- Now, open the "Cobb County" mdb file in MS Access and paste the password in. This ridiculous technique lets anyone bypass any county supervisor password.

More demo preparation -- create a clean, easy to view vote set

- Go to the "CandidateCounter" table and in the total votes, clean it out: Just do a search and replace of all number values and set all votes to zero. This is not needed to rig an election; we just do it because it's easier to see what's going on with a stripped down file.

- Also go to the "SumCandidateCounter" table and search/replace all vote totals with "zero"

- Save your work, and make about 5 copies of the database so you can play with it.

The double set of books demo

- Name one file "correct Cobb County Votes".

- Open this in MS Access and go into the CandidateCounter table and enter "800" in the first line and "400" in the second.
- Then go to the second set of books, SumCandidateCounter, and enter the wrong votes, "300" and "900" respectively. Save your work.

- Now open GEMS and open the "correct Cobb County Votes" database.
- Go to the menu item "GEMS" and run a "statement of votes cast" report (this is a detail report, precinct by precinct). You'll see the 800 and 400 amounts from the CandidateCounter table.

- Now, run a "Summary report." With the books coupled up, it should match the CandidateCounter detail report and even though you entered the wrong votes in the second table, all reported votes will be correct.

Decouple the two sets of books: Rig the election

- Name another copy of the file "funky Cobb County votes"
- Email Andy Stephenson at this address: [e-mail] and he'll tell you the secret location and the 2-digit code which will decouple the 2 sets of books.

- Enter that code in the right place while in MS Access.

- Put the 400 and 800 in CandidateCounter, and the 900 and 300 in SumCandidateCounter. Save and go to GEMS.

- Run the detail report, and you'll see how it pulls vote data from CandidateCounter. Run the Summary Report, and see how it pulls the wrong vote totals, using the hidden vote table which is now decoupled from the real votes.

The meltdown demo

- Make a file called "meltdown." (You can only do this demo once, by the way). Sometimes I like to do this demo with all the votes in there, not with the stripped down version.

- Now, go into GEMS. In six seconds you can create havoc -- just go to the menu item "GEMS" and choose "reset election" and opt NOT to have a backup created. Run your reports -- guess what? You just wiped out the database. Other ways to do a six-second meltdown: You can go into the setup menu, top item ("election") and unclick the boxes that show the election was set up. Get rid of everything -- by resetting the setup files you melt down the whole thing and it can't easily be reconstructed even by re-uploading all the votes.

Now, think about how absurd this is: First, we know that election officials are not even keeping written lists of who accesses GEMS during the middle of election night. The media, candidates, everyone is there, it's a zoo.

Six seconds. Election gone. Or, you can alter the vote undetectably, in a way that will PASS PAPER BALLOT SPOT CHECKS, in just seconds, by triggering the second set of books.

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I ask you: Why the heck is this in a vote-counting program???

The GEMS central tabulator, in Los Angelos County, will count 2.5 million votes -- 2.5% of the national election this fall. The GEMS tabulator in King County will count 1 million votes; in San Diego, another million; in Alameda County, another million. In Georgia, millions more, and in Maryland, more millions. You'll also find the GEMs tabulator in Colorado, New Hampshire, Florida, Virginia, North Carolina, Texas, Arizona, Minnesota, Alaska, and many, many more states.

The GEMS tabulator will count about 50 percent of the election this fall, and it counts both optical scan and touch screen votes, and also absentee votes.

Sorry, but it's NOT TOO LATE to put in measures to mitigate risks.

Bev Harris

[Zan_of_Texas]

1. State voting figures.

The number of votes for president in Georgia in 2000 was about 2.5 million. Maryland, about 2 million.

Source: InfoPlease almanac
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0876793.html


So, the Hopkins report pegged the level of expertise necessary to mess with an election run by Diebold at "clever teenager" if I remember correctly.

Now, perhaps, it would only need to be "teenager who can read"???? Why, there must be at least a hundred or so of those! In every state! Not to mention Gen Xers who can read, Baby Boomers who can read, Senior Citizens who can read. Foreign lobbyists who can read. War profiteers who can read. ...

So, if pretty much anyone who can read can rig an election that uses Diebold GEMS, why would a presidential candidate pay $100 million or so to buy political ads? Why convince people to vote a certain way, if the votes are rigged anyway? Seems like the media had better figure out their golden goose of political ad money is going to quit laying, if the votes don't count.

[BevHarris]

2. At the California meeting, the comment was

That a teenager could easily (or even accidentally!) do it. The price might be just getting the kid a car.

And by the way, no law requires elections officials to tell us if their election was rigged.

In fact, they could open up a database that has Santa Claus winning, and we'd never know about it unless it gets leaked. No law (in most states) requires them to report security breaches or huge anomalies.

At Defcon, hackers were recruited, but my input is this: Even if it gets hacked, we'll never know because vendors and officials will cover their asses and hide that from us.

Also, usually when there is an anomaly they call the vendor's tech. The vendor certainly has no incentive to admit someone cracked their system open, and I would imagine they'd quietly try to fix it and come up with a plausible explanation, so as not to get stuck with paying damages and losing sales.

Anomalies should be required to be disclosed.


Bev

[Andy_Stephenson]

3. This quote in point of fact came from

Mark Kyle...what is his title?

"The price might be just getting the kid a car."

[Andy_Stephenson]

4. Kick fer the

DU Day Crew.

[Andy_Stephenson]

5. Kick

[democrat_patriot]

6. YES!!! Thank you.

I'll see what I can do.

[sangh0]

7. kick

for a worthy cause

[Andy_Stephenson]

8. You Rock

[whosinpower]

9. Ummmm, while I totally understand

Here is my number #1 worry -

The GOP will expose democrats as trying to "fix" the election.

It will go to the supreme court, once again, and Bush will be reselected.

Please, tell me I am just paranoid. I know that just how easy it is to fix the elections via pc is something every honest voter should be concerned with - but my bigger problem with this is that the GOP will use this exact information against us. They may declare(the FEC officials) the election defunct....AND THEN WHAT???????

[Andy_Stephenson]

10. Don't worry

Be happy.

[unslinkychild1]

11. welllllllll.

what's stopping us then? Let's just rig the bastard then. And then we can watch the repubs SCREAM THEIR FUCKING HEADS OFF, and it will never be an issue again. What's wrong with that? LOL.

surely, there must be some patriotic hackers out there...