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Stevepol

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30. I agree with the thesis of this post.

Sun Nov 18, 2012, 03:46 PM

Nov 2012

In "Hacking Democracy," the HBO show about the dangers of e-voting, Diebold claimed that the memory cards used to download the vote totals and transfer those results to the central tabulators could not transfer "executable" code to the voting machines. There's a scene in which the Diebold computer experts sware it couldn't be done. But in the experiment that is done using a Diebold opti-scan, Hari Hursti was given a memory card and in less than 5 minutes programmed it to flip the results. Which of course it did.

Anon didn't mention ORCA because ORCA is irrelevant. The question is whether or not the existing vote-counting program could have been altered by Husted's patches. I'm no computer expert but I would stake a lot of money that it would have been trivially easy for a computer "expert" to write a program that would have altered the vote counting and flipped the results and that Husted's patch could easily have been the modus operandi to embed the fix -- if it wasn't already a part of the programming code.

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It is NOT about ORCA! It's those "software patches." [View all] Atman Nov 2012 OP

Yes...it's about the patches. FarPoint Nov 2012 #1

Has Husted Been Heard From Since The Election?...... global1 Nov 2012 #2

Not a peep from Husted as far as I know... FarPoint Nov 2012 #24

Husted saw results . . . brush Nov 2012 #15

That is my first impression... FarPoint Nov 2012 #25

Neither had any effect on the outcome. longship Nov 2012 #3

Sometimes I feel like we are a mirror of FreeRepublic or redstate OKNancy Nov 2012 #4

Yep, and those who put all faith in the CT damn those who point out their folly RomneyLies Nov 2012 #7

This message was self-deleted by its author RobertEarl Nov 2012 #21

Folly? RobertEarl Nov 2012 #23

Where is the transparency? Lars39 Nov 2012 #5

Do you mean other than the thousands of observers? longship Nov 2012 #12

Programming naivete Lars39 Nov 2012 #17

If they wanted transparency, the would hand count paper ballots in every precinct on CATV bahrbearian Nov 2012 #19

You don't think there are observers watching the count? longship Nov 2012 #27

If anything of the kind happened, the evidence is gone Occulus Nov 2012 #13

Well, if it happened it didn't work very well. longship Nov 2012 #29

It's the perfect conspiracy theory - the proof is *NOTHING HAPPENED*, because there were 2 muriel_volestrangler Nov 2012 #32

It is NOT about REALITY! It's about those "conspiracy theories." RomneyLies Nov 2012 #6

And here's the thing: MineralMan Nov 2012 #8

But don't you see? Some anonymous person on the internet says they blocked the GOP from stealing it! RomneyLies Nov 2012 #10

I suppose you won't believe I am a male model from France either.... rzemanfl Nov 2012 #14

It is so dangerous to see the small picture. robinlynne Nov 2012 #11

So just forget about 2000 and 2004, right got it, Move On nothing to See bahrbearian Nov 2012 #20

Nobody flipped electeonic votes in 2000 or 2004 RomneyLies Nov 2012 #26

Thank-you!!!! robinlynne Nov 2012 #9

Well, SOMETHING, as my father would say, put a burr under Rove's tail. rocktivity Nov 2012 #16

Oh, the confusion: ProSense Nov 2012 #18

The Florida recount in 2000 seemed so deliberately shaped to turn off the public from hand counting Overseas Nov 2012 #22

If the claimant had any credibility to start with, bringing in ORCA would have wrecked it. Orangepeel Nov 2012 #28

I agree with the thesis of this post. Stevepol Nov 2012 #30

I'm just going to kick my own post instead of starting another one. Sheesh. Atman Nov 2012 #31

'Even a "conspiracy theory" should have some basis in fact' muriel_volestrangler Nov 2012 #33