"California Decertified 14,000 DIEBOLD Machines Earlier This Year"

    ( AccuVote-TS voting machine ...  well, I guess the TS stands for ,  ... well, you know:  )

DIEBOLD, the leading manufacturer of e-voting machines, suffered the indignity of having its home state of Ohio disqualify its machines because of suspect technology. 

A December 2003 report by COMPUWARE CORP., a widely respected software and computer-services firm, found at least four security weaknesses in DIEBOLD's AccuVote-TS. 

Most distressing:  anyone who lays his hands on a voting supervisor's card could access the system and tamper with results. 

A 2003 Johns Hopkins University study found that HACKERS could devise their own smart cards and vote multiple times or alter voting results. 

A DIEBOLD spokesman insists that the company has addressed the problems of AccuVote-TS, but neither Ohio nor California is buying it. 

California decertified 14,000 DIEBOLD machines earlier this year.


Political insiders have expressed alarm after 12 voter SMARTCARDS have gone missing from one Shelby County, TN early vote location!

The cards are used to ACTIVATE electronic voting machines. The location at the center of the controversy is Bishop Byrne High School on E. Shelby Drive in Memphis.

The polling place started out with 25 cards. By Wednesday, 11 were missing, says an eyewitness.

The location was given 5 more smartcards on Thursday. And another card went missing!

Someone possessing a smartcard could use 'off the shelf equipment' [equipment that reprograms the card] and alter it to be used multiple times, and cast multiple votes.

One concerned insider explains: "Shelby County Board of Elections has been notified. They said is was 'not a big deal' because, they said, the cards are deactivated. But the reality is, you can buy the equipment at computer stores to reactivate them. It's on the Internet how to reactivate the cards!"

Meanwhile, The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is reviewing reports by the Shelby County Election Commission that two people voted twice during early voting in Memphis.

Dist. Atty. Gen. Bill Gibbons said he's referred the cases to the TBI for investigation along with other matters he declined to discuss.

Poll watchers are expected to turn out Tuesday to observe voting in Tennessee's heated U.S. Senate race between Chattanooga Republican Bob Corker and Memphis Democrat Harold Ford Jr.

Securacom aka Stratesec installed the INITIAL security-description plan—the layout of the electronic security system—at the World Trade Center.

Securacom got the $8.3 million World Trade Center security contract in October 1996 and received about $9.2 million from the WTC job from 1996 (a quarter of its revenues that year) to 1998. Submitted by fedup 2005-12-06 08:40:13

But in 1998, the company was "excused from the project" because it could not fulfill the work, according to former manager Al Weinstein, and the electronic security work at the WTC was taken over by EJ Electric, a larger contractor.

Stratesec was founded as SECURACOM (formerly the engineering firm Burns and Roe Securacom).

It was reinvented shortly after the first Gulf War, and thereafter marketed large security contracts to big clients, including the World Trade Center, Washington's Reagan National Airport and Dulles International Airport, various municipalities and airlines.