FL Voter Reg. Database Security COMPROMISED -- "by accident"- ROFLMAO

[autorank]

Hey, it’s Florida, what did you expect? Exactly this. Florida screwed Gore and all of us in 2000 by having ChoicePoint write a lousy felon purge program - tens of thousands of legitimate voters, mostly minority (not by chance I'm sure) were removed from the rolls & COULD NOT VOTE. Cost Gore! They tried the same thing in 2004 and Palast and his reporter Pascarella busted them before the election. Now they GIVE AWAY THE PASSWORD to the REGISTRATION DATABASE.

ARE WE SUPPOSED TO THINK THIS IS AN ACCIDENT? (Any ChoicePoint defenders out there? Speak up.

Florida

Computerworld
Auditor's Report Criticizes Florida's Voter Database
State agrees to fix security woes that could lead to unauthorized access

Marc Songini
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=13&articleId=112204

June 26, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Florida voter registration data can be vulnerable to theft, corruption, unauthorized access and alteration, despite the best efforts of elections officials, indicated a report by the Florida auditor general.

The report, released earlier this month by Auditor General William Monroe, found several IT security problems with the state's central voter registration database. "There were some procedures that were missing we felt needed to be in place," noted Jon Ingram, an IT audit manager in the Florida auditor general's office and a contributor to the report.

For instance, Ingram noted that the review of the system found that a state worker was erroneously given access to the database and that a worker whose contract was finished mistakenly retained access.

The Florida Voter Registration System (FVRS) database was created by Secretary of State Sue Cobb's office to comply with the federal Help America Vote Act. HAVA mandates that every state create a centralized voter information repository to, among other things, protect against election fraud. Work on the project started in 2003, and the database was rolled out in January.

SEE TODAYS Election Forum News Thread for the COMMON CAUSE List of the 17 WORST STATES FOR E-VOTING


www.ElectionFraudNews.com

[mod mom]

1. I'm shocked! Certainly the folks in FL wouldn't do anything unethical

to disenfranchise a segment of the voting public?

:argh:

[autorank]

2. Jeb, Harris, Miami "Riot", LaPore, Feeney, Vote Switching, Spoiled Ballots

...nope, not a single thing. There is a real commitment fromt he State to control things - that's why they don't want local boards of elections testing voting equipment without state permission...

:puke:

[dogday]

5. Because they have something to hide....

they never want back-up or scrutiny, or anyone to ask any questions about anything... They are so weaved in deceit, it physically makes me want to :puke: too!!!!

[mod mom]

3. Heres what Greg Palast says of ChoicePoint:

ChoicePoint's board has more Republicans than a Palm Beach country club. It was funded, and its board stocked, by such Republican sugar daddies as billionaires Bernie Marcus and Ken Langone -- even after Langone was charged by the Securities Exchange Commission with abuse of inside information.

I first ran across these guys in 2000 in Florida when our Guardian/BBC team discovered the list of 94,000 "felons" that Katherine Harris had ordered removed from Florida's voter rolls before the election. Virtually every voter purged was innocent of any crime except, in most cases, Voting While Black. Who came up with this electoral hit list that gave Bush the White House? ChoicePoint, Inc.

http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=502

[mod mom]

4. and what is ChoicePoint doing now?

more from Palast:

The leader in the field of what is called "data mining," is a company called, "ChoicePoint, Inc," which has sucked up over a billion dollars in national security contracts.

Worried about Dick Cheney listening in Sunday on your call to Mom? That ain't nothing. You should be more concerned that they are linking this info to your medical records, your bill purchases and your entire personal profile including, not incidentally, your voting registration. Five years ago, I discovered that ChoicePoint had already gathered 16 billion data files on Americans -- and I know they've expanded their ops at an explosive rate.

They are paid to keep an eye on you -- because the FBI can't. For the government to collect this stuff is against the law unless you're suspected of a crime. (The law in question is the Constitution.) But ChoicePoint can collect it for "commercial" purchases -- and under the Bush Administration's suspect reading of the Patriot Act -- our domestic spying apparatchiks can then BUY the info from ChoicePoint.

[autorank]

6. 94,000 stripped of voting in 2000 Florida...lets do the numbers

Lets say 1/2 are minoritiy voters (it was more)

47,000 minoritiy voters wrongly taken off the rolls

Lets say 1/2 of this group tried to vote:

23,500 minority voters tried to vote but were turned away

WE KNOW THAT THEY WERE TURNED AWAY IF THEY TRIED TO VOTE

Let's say 60% of them voted for Gore, or 14,100 (the number would have been 80%)

Florida 2000 (-) Choicpoint "felon purge" = Gore Victory

Thanks Harris, Choicepoint...we are just sooooo grateful...

[mod mom]

12. Auto, are you David Bronchoccio incognito-"lets do the numbers"

:rofl:

:hi:

[stellanoir]

7. oh joy

more good news. Can it get any weirder?

rec'd (in more ways than one). . .kidding sorta

[flordehinojos]

8. i believe in the BY ACCIDENT shit like i believe in JEBUTTINKY'S crocodile

tears!

[mitchtv]

9. The term "minority" is deceptive as

Hispanic names were not on the list. African Americans is the right term.

[bleever]

10. I'm sure it was an honest mistake.

Geez, I bet if you were the captain of a ship, you'd want every single hole in it repaired.

[katinmn]

11. Gee. I wonder who might take advantage of unauthorized access.

ARRRGGHHH!

When will people say enough is enough?

[Wilms]

13. I wonder if FL will top the states for % of provisional votes. n/t

[glitch]

14. blatant. k & r nt