SECURITY BREACHES IN BUSBY/BILBRAY RACE NULLIFIED USE OF VOTING MACHINES!

[BradBlog]

This is getting worse. Not better. Incredible. PDA statement of "No Confidence" to be coming soon, I'm also told. Read on... Brad

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Security Breaches for 'Sleepover' Voting Machines Used in Busby/Bilbray Race Invalidated, Decertified Their Use in the Election!
San Diego County Registrar Admits to Security Lapses Which Would Nullify Legal Use of Systems According to Both State and Federal Requirements, Provisions!
Registrar of Voters Not Concerned, Says Poll Workers would 'have to want to commit a felony, which knocks out most of our poll workers'

The electronic Diebold voting systems used in the special election run-off election last week for California's 50th congressional district were effectively 'decertified' and invalidated for use in the election after massive security breaches in the storage of those systems were sanctioned by the San Diego County Registrar of Voters, The BRAD BLOG can now conclude.

Based on the review of several different very specific state and federal requirements, the unsecured overnight storage of Diebold voting machines and their memory cards in poll workers houses, cars and garages in the days and weeks prior to the closely watched U.S. House election between Republican Brian Bilbray and Democrat Francine Busby violated several federal and state provisions which, if not followed, would revoke the certification of use the voting systems in any California election.

In the wake of discussions yesterday with SD County Registrar Mikel Haas, who admitted to The BRAD BLOG that storage in poll workers' cars could not be considered secure, it has now become clear that several violations of certifified provisions of use for Diebold voting machines — which have been found and confirmed in the past several months to be highly tamperable by dozens of methods and by the company's own admissions — occured in last week's race...

COMPLETE & DETAILED EXPOSÉ:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2954

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VoteTrustUSA on Busby/Bilbray Election: 'No Reason to Believe the Official Results are Accurate'
Says Sending Hackable Diebold Voting Machines Home With Pollworkers an 'Egregious Violation of Chain-of-Custody Precautions'
Election Watchdog Group Issues Statement of Concern...
URL: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2959

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Vote-Switching Software Provided by Vendors in Atleast 51 Elections So Far This Year...
URL: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2960

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VIDEO - Lou Dobbs: 'Doubts About E-Vote Accuracy, Integrity Threaten to Undermine Democracy'
CNN Anchor Files 6th Report, in As Many Days, on Electronic Voting Machines: 'Democracy for Sale'
URL: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2958

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[DoYouEverWonder]

1. They sure were in a hurry

to get Bilbray sworn in.

[skids]

18. Yeah, they broke the law every step of the way n/t

[msongs]

2. name one elected democrat who intends to investigate this nt

[lindisfarne]

4. Not a one so far: Boxer, Davis, Filner, Dems in primaries who don't stand

a chance, Greens, Independents, Libertarians, Peace & Freedom, could all challenge the election as not valid. (as could Repugs, but they won't).

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2954#more-2954
Anyone who wants a summary of federal election law, CA election law, and how San Diego violated them both should read the whole page. He summarizes it quite well.

from bradblog:
The National Association of State Elections Directors (NASED) the national body responsible for qualifying voting systems for use on the federal level, issued a warning about the severe tamperability of memory cards back on March 22nd, 2006, after the issue came to light during the December Leon County tests which revealed that exploitation of this vulnerability could be used to flip an election on a Diebold optical scan system. If exploited, the tampering would not be visible to vote tabulation witnesses and no trace of the hack would be left behind save for counting the paper ballots themselves for accuracy.

In another examination by computer security professionals in Emery County, Utah in March, it was discovered that Diebold's touch-screen systems could have their entire election software, operating system and even computer firmware ("BIOS") overwritten in less than two minutes time — no password necessary — should a single malicious user have unfettered phyiscal access to the system. Such access could then affect every voting machine used across the entire county.

The result of all of this would be that if there had been malicious tampering with these voting systems, no amount of observations of the tabulation would reveal the tampering that had occured inside the machines.
<snip>
As well, the so-called "conditional certification" of Diebold touch-screen systems in California, as issued by Sec. of State Bruce McPherson on February 17th, 2006 http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/voting_systems/diebold_cert.pdf also speaks to the memory cards issues. It spells out quite clearly that the "additional security measures" in regard to those memory cards are "conditions for use in the state of California."

If violated, the systems would no longer be approved for use here. Says McPherson's certification: "Any breach of control over a memory card shall require that its contents be zeroed, in the presence of two election officials, before it can be used again"

Another thread with additional info:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1424795

[shance]

12. The DNC is investigating the race

n/t

[lindisfarne]

22. If that's true: last I heard is that they were "discussing" (not "doing")

(a few days ago, on bradblog.com) but I haven't heard anything about them speaking out publicly

Surely it doesn't take all that much discussion to decide to speak out about flagrant violations of election law (allowing highly tamperable voting machines to be sent home with poll workers)?

Until the DNC starts speaking out publicly about San Diego county's violations, they're not doing anything. I have my doubts about whether they will - their track record isn't good. You'd think they'd be motivated - midterm elections are in just a few months.

[lindisfarne]

3. Nullifies ALL of San Diego elections; not clear if Bilbray's swearing in

changes a thing.

By constitution: people of states choose reps, but House is final judge
of the elections. So there's a bit of a tension here: CA has not finished "choosing" until the results are certified. I still think the swearing in is a violation - a violation of the constitution, it seems.

Article 1, Section 5 of the U.S. Constitution essentially says that the U.S. House is the final judge of its own elections (a position that the Supreme Court has refused to modify). The process is that the Committee on House Administration makes a recommendation on the matter to the full House which then decides.

But Article 1, Section 2 says:

The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

Article 1. Section. 5.

Each House shall be the Judge of the Elections, Returns and Qualifications of its own Members, and a Majority of each shall constitute a Quorum to do Business; but a smaller Number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the Attendance of absent Members, in such Manner, and under such Penalties as each House may provide.

http://www.archives.gov/national-archives-experience/charters/constitution_transcript.html

[corbett]

9. Hastert Or Sensenbrenner Will Decide

Unless there is a media hailstorm, one of those two hacks will decide and we'll be no better off than we are today.

If you have any suggestions of what we can do, I'd love to read them.

[lindisfarne]

10. File a complaint with CA sec of state; see msg #7below. It's as important

to prevent this in November (actually, even MORE important) as it is to make the argument that ALL of San Diego county's elections (not just the 50th district (Busby/Bilbray)) were compromised by the Registrar of Voter's decision to send voting machines home with poll workers.

[corbett]

25. I Live In Florida So I Donated To VR Instead

http://www.velvetrevolution.us/donate.php

[lindisfarne]

27. You don't have to live in CA to file a complaint with the CA Sec of State.

[corbett]

31. Thanks For The Clarification! I've Submitted My Complaint

On a somewhat related note, I just discovered a website which you might enjoy visiting if you haven't already:

http://www.just6dollars.org

[BrklynLiberal]

5. 5th Rec. Off to the greatest page with you!!!

[burythehatchet]

6. This situation is truly beyond belief when you put in context

of election fraud being the number one concern of every progressive democrat. I'm awestruck.

[lindisfarne]

7. Citizens can file complaints about security breaches;go to (pls file one!)

http://www.ss.ca.gov/elections/hava-complaint-procedure.htm

Section 1. Scope. These provisions provide a uniform, nondiscriminatory procedure for resolving any complaint alleging a violation of any provision of Title III of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 ("HAVA"), including a violation that has occurred, is occurring, or is about to occur. This procedure does not apply to alleged violations of state or federal law not involving Title III. Any writing received by the Secretary of State that does not appear to involve an alleged violation of Title III shall be referred to appropriate persons or agencies for processing.
<snip>
Section 3 Who May File. Any person who believes that there has been a violation, there is a violation, or a violation is about to occur of any provision of Title III may file a complaint.
<snip>
B. When to File. A complaint shall be filed within 60 days after the occurrence of the actions or events that form the basis for the complaint, or within 90 days after the Complainant becomes aware of the actions or events, whichever is later.

Link to form available at that webpage.

[JackBeck]

8. Keep up the excellent work Brad.

I visit your blog many times each day and I love your dedication to election reform and all the other topics you explore.

[BigBearJohn]

11. I live in Busby's district. I signed the petition to demand a recount

[enough]

13. K&r Thanks again Bradblog.

[fooj]

14. These rat bastards don't know how to WIN an election without cheating!

Californians...contact McPherson and tell him that THIS WILL NOT STAND!

[lindisfarne]

16. You don't have to be from CA to file a complaint with CA Sec of State

see msg #7 above.

[marions ghost]

15. Sleeping with voting machines

NOT acceptable.

[Nordmadr]

19. Now I imagine we will need a Constitutional amendment that is

clear in prohibiting all Voting machine - people marriages.

:sarcasm:

Olaf

[rucky]

17. ANY Local coverage of this?!

I trust Brad, but regular folks need to know it and believe it.

[lindisfarne]

20. So far, absolutely nothing. Silence from local, state, and national

Democratic parties; nothing from the Democrats who ran in San Diego county primaries and who will be running in general elections in November (=Davis, Filner, and others); nothing from Boxer or Feinstein; nothing from prominent Democrats on the national scene.

We might as well say good bye to ever getting a majority in Congress or the presidency if no one is willing to speak out when flagrant (or any) violations of voting machine security occur such as what happened in San Diego.

I wouldn't expect the local San Diego media to cover this before something like the LA Times or NY Times did - too conservative. The San Diego Union-Tribune ran the story on Bilbray being sworn in without even questioning how it could happen before the election results were certified. (so far, my LTTE about this isn't published, either).

[lindisfarne]

21. Progressive Dems of Am have spoken out - see this thread:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x1436604

[helderheid]

23. Will it be contested??

[texpatriot2004]

24. Thanks Brad for your dedication to this cause. nm

[lindisfarne]

26. bradblog.com has a bit about the PBS Newshour coverage of voting

machines (June 16; you have to scroll down a bit). Unfortunately, PBS didn't discuss the San Diego situation. bragblog thought they gave a positive spin to voting machines but they did present a number of local incidents which showed security measures being violated. They weren't overtly negative, but I didn't think they were overtly positive, either.

[leftchick]

28. this is blatant election fraud

and they still get away with it!

[Robeson]

29. "this is blatant election fraud"....

...Yep, seems pretty clear, doesn't it...:argh:

[tiptoe]

30. kick...& rate the story *5-star * at Yahoo (link within)

1) Go To Yahoo
http://news.yahoo.com/s/huffpost/20060617/cm_huffpost/023197
2) and Rate it: 5-star !!

[lindisfarne]

32. Does anyone know whether Air America radio (Al Franken or others)

have covered this? I can't listen during the day so miss it.

[LaPera]

33. Peter B Collins is on this - listen to his great show!

http://www.peterbcollins.com/

www.whiterosesociety.com