EXCLUSIVE: Voting Machine 'Sleepovers' in Alaska Pose Serious Risk to Today's Primary Election
Source: BRAD BLOG
EXCLUSIVE: Voting Machine 'Sleepovers' in Alaska Pose Serious Risk to Today's Primary Election
Same vulnerable systems set for use in 24 states this November...
Apparently, they never learn. Or they just don't care.
It's Primary Election day in Alaska today, with voters heading to the polls to cast mostly paper ballots for U.S. House of Representative candidates, state House and Senate candidates and two ballot measures (one concerning property taxes and another concerning new Alaska Coastal Management Program standards for the review of projects in coastal areas.)
While turnout is expected to be low, at least the Diebold optical-scan machines are fully rested and ready to go after their lengthy "sleepovers" at poll workers' houses in the days prior to today's elections! Yes, the state of Alaska still sends their incredibly vulnerable Diebold optical-scan systems home with poll workers days before the election, where they can do whatever they like with them, so they can bring them to the polls on the morning of Election Day.
For example, here's a photo of one of those machines that will be in use today, as obtained from an Alaskan source over the weekend by The BRAD BLOG. The machine appears as if it has received a full going over at the workshop of one of the poll workers who enjoyed the time spent with their machine during the several days of "sleepover" over the past week...
Alaska, like some 24 states across the country, still uses the exact same system (as seen above from the Alaska poll worker) which was used to flip an entire mock election in Leon County, FL in such a way that only a manual hand-count of the paper ballots would have revealed that the results had been reversed after the machine's memory card was accessed and manipulated by a computer security expert. The haunting event was revealed in the climactic final scene of HBO's Emmy-nominated 2006 documentary Hacking Democracy...
FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9515
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Happy dance.
Thanks so much for all your coverage on our elections! Your blog is a wealth of information.
Actually, I read your subject line and was expecting *another* election to be stolen by fiddled-with, diddled-with voting machines. The voting process in the U.S. is so screwed up, I've decided the only voting process I trust is the one used by American Idol. (Not that I watch the show or even mean I trust American Idol voting, but my sarcasm is far from brilliant.)
Just kidding! Thanks for the kind words and for the happy dance!
The night (and year) is young.
Well, there's your problem right there!
if they would for me since I have voted at the city hall here in Soldotna for 36 years. They did but someone recognized me. I was pissed.
By the by, Brad, you do God's work. Thanks for keeping this topic hot.
Wish God would contribute to The BRAD BLOG every now and again! Could use it! (Since I'm doing his work and all!)
But, all kidding aside, thank you, RV.
There is a big difference between acting violently and opposing violence. Just ask Ghandi 
