San Diego's Diebold Election Software 'Lost in Transit'

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It seems like the corruption down here doesn't stop... Brad Blog just put up a report that the newer Diebold chips with security fixes that were FedExed to San Diego's Voter Registrar's office didn't arrive. There was an empty box instead. We need to make sure that we keep the voting machines OUT of this state for these coming elections! The crime syndicate knew they had to rev stuff to work around the new security that was forced onto them!

These are the chips for the optical scan machines that scan our newly mandated paper ballots! Perhaps we should now have a MANDATED hand count for every precinct using Diebold machines as a result and bill Diebold for the cost! If Diebold doesn't like it, tell them to sue Fedex for not securing their shipments properly!

From:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5462

BLOGGED BY John Gideon ON 12/19/2007 3:31PM
San Diego's Diebold Election Software 'Lost In Transit'
EPROM Chips Fed-Exed from CA Secretary of State Turn Up Missing, Package Arrives Empty
Police Are Investigating...

Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

Two shipping tubes sent from the California Secretary of State's office in Sacramento to the San Diego County Election Office arrived without their contents. The tubes left the SOS Office with more than 174 memory chips, or Erasable Programmable Read Only Memory (EPROM), containing firmware for the county's Diebold/Premier central-count optical scan voting machines.

The tubes arrived in San Diego but they were empty. The chips are now considered to be either lost or stolen.

WIRED's Kim Zetter reports today...

Two cardboard shipping tubes containing more than 174 EPROMs loaded with voting machine software were sent via Federal Express from the secretary of state's office in Sacramento last week to election officials in more than a dozen California counties that use optical-scan voting machines made by Diebold Election Systems. But two shipping tubes arrived empty to one county on Monday.

In San Diego County, one of the empty tubes arrived with no lid on the end of it to close the tube; the second tube had a lid, but it was loosely taped shut.

According to Zetter, the new firmware was being sent to San Diego following software and security modifications made following the state's recent "Top-to-Bottom Review" of e-voting systems. The packages were sent from the Secretary of State's office after being packaged by Diebold/Premier employees with SoS personnel standing witness.

New chips will now be sent and the state says the February primary will not be delayed by the issue. The California

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