The Hursti Hack, New Hampshire, and "Tinfoil" [View All]

[Junkdrawer]

Now, in case you haven't heard about the Hursti Hack, let me give you a brief description:

The Zero Value Report is printed at the beginning of every election. Its only purpose is to assure the election officials that the memory card has no votes preloaded. But, in at least the Diebold case, the memory card also holds an AccuBasic program that prints the zero value report. That's right: The report that verifies the honesty of the memory card is on the same memory card.

With this design the Zero Value Report is less than useless, it’s a ruse meant to give a false sense of security to election officials. A kind of conjurer’s “nothing up my sleeves” ploy. This has been known for some time. Indeed, it was the center piece of an HBO documentary.

Now, you'd think that such an odious system would be banned from US elections. Think again. It was used to count over 80% of last night's votes. You know, the election with the amazing last minute 10 to 15 point turn around.

So, what about that other 20%? Glad you asked. Turns out that when the votes were hand counted, Clinton lost to Obama. See: http://presscue.com/node/38034

So, go ahead. Flame me. Claim my tinfoil hat is too tight. But I, for one, think something stinks in Denmark.