DIEBOLD MEDIA MONITORING POST (2) Limey Papers Should Be Opening Shortly

[althecat]

PLEASE KEEP THIS WELL KICKED SO THAT PEOPLE WILL KNOW TO CONTRIBUTE.

And DUers.. the last thread is almost all me... I have seen you guys post links faster than John Wayne... So far I am holding out... but eventuall sleep will come..

THIS POST SUPERSEEDS...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=82935&mesg_id=82935&page=
PLEASE KEEP IT WELL KICKED SO THAT PEOPLE WILL KNOW TO CONTRIBUTE.

DUers are is the eyes and ears of this story. It is now nearly 1pm here in Wellington NZ. And 1am in London. Lets keep on marking everything that moves in the media on this, Net, TV, Radio, Papers etc and post reports and links here... This resource is invaluable. I

This post - as stated above - needs regular kicking and fostering by youse guys. And replacement once it gets stale. At the momment it is very easy to find an excuse to post to it.. all new links are extremely welcome.. and all new threads on the SUBJECT OF E-VOTING should post cross refrences here.

If anyone interested in a new referral log analysis on this. From what I can see Scoop's traffic is not picking up today mainly because our Buzzflash and Whatreallyhappened links have dropped on those pages.

There is a discussion on how you can help propagate this story in this post

--->A REQUEST - How U2 Can Help Scoop Rock The world...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=84234&mesg_id=84234&page=

Which also needs a good kicking.

Finally.... Specically calling all slashdotters... there are DU slashdotters I presume... you have an assignment.

[althecat]

1. Calling all slashdotters... & For fans of Buzzflash.com

Your assignment is here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=84234&mesg_id=85648&page=

For fans of Buzzflash:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=84234&mesg_id=85641&page=

[althecat]

2. Truth Is All Rocks This World....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=85732&mesg_id=85732&page=

[DUreader]

3. Last kick before I go out for live music

kick

[papau]

4. And another kick before night time meds.

kick!

:-)

[Vadem]

5. Kick

:kick:

[althecat]

6. Dear Michael... a really really really big favour to ask...

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com



SUBJECT: Dear Michael... a really really really big favour to ask...
TO: Michael Rivero - http://www.whatreallyhappened.com

Dear Michael... a really really really big favour to ask...

Scoop calling. You are by far the staunchest on the sites on E-Voting I know of. Not to mention 911. And your traffic is incredible. Traffic is now dropping off on the older links on the fp..

How bout a link to.

http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup

Near the top... In the panel you have set up.... ideally. There is a huge ammount of new material from Bev and I on this.

You can take a local copy too of you like you did for the other stories when we first published. It would would also be good if Bev did the same on blackboxvoting.org...

In fact everybody else who wants to is welcome to do so too. Everyone Is also welcome to reproduce entirely or part by part all the postings I have made here on DU today.

Scoop has awful transmission times to the states for some networks I expect... Sorry. We are where we are. But that can be a good thing too.

I have also tuned down the Front page... a bit and can easily do so some more once the traffic comes on.



... Scoop will reciprocate with a Fire The Liar cartoon on Scoop's Front Page ...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/#usa
... is a smaller version set in a NZ context ...

Most of the links on these page segments go out of scoop... they go everywhere man..

Slashdot precautions....

http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup

I am seeking a slashdot link... to the same page... and one on Yahoo Full Coverage. Buzzflash has also been rallied to the cause. If everybody posts this link then we may well have problems again. Hence the local copy taking precaution idea. Even if we do go down... the story will keep on rolling..... and the key source material is not only on Scoop. It's on you DU & Blackboxvoting.com. Plus The Inquirer in the UK.

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10393

Perhaps you could ask WRH Slashdotters to submit.. That would be totally cool.

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/153258&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=126&tid=128&tid=99

But while it was slashdot that took us out last time. With a sudden peak. Over the first three days during the peak

http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

WRH is our top referrer... NO 1# By a country mile... and for that you get a chorus of.

WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM Rocks the world with Bev. Harris
WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM Rocks the world with Bev. Harris
WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM Rocks the world with Bev. Harris
WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM Rocks the world with Bev. Harris
WHATREALLYHAPPENED.COM Rocks the world with Bev. Harris

See here...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00110.htm

Scroll to the bottom of the page... and you will see a bit that looks like this.

*********
Finally, according to Scoop's own logs the following have been the top 910 referring pages to Bev Harris's "Inside A U.S. Vote Counting Program"
The links go to referral pages.
NO.1 8460 Link (<---------------------WHATREALLY HAPPENED.COM
http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/

4508: Link - 2394: Link - 2299: Link - 1367: Link - 1201: Link - 922: Link - 540: Link - 539: Link - 512: Link - 497: Link - 469: Link - 425: Link - 337: Link - 336: Link - 308: Link - 298: Link - 280: Link - 279: Link - 267: Link - 264: Link - 263: Link - 259: Link - 256: Link - 239: Link - 233: Link - 228: Link - 225: Link - 220: Link - 216: Link - 185: Link - 180: Link - 162: Link - 157: Link - 148: Link - 143: Link - 142: Link - 142: Link - 123: Link - 122:
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http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/HL0307/S00110.htm

And so many of the others too... have a look.

Note this page has a redsheriff code embedded in it (we have recently signed up to try to sell advertising) you can delete it if you want. But if you leave it I can monitor traffic extremely accurately. I will be happy to share all information.
I have already shared a fair bit on DU.org..

http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup

Linking to this page... The Eyes and Ears of The E-Voting Team... would also be very cool.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=104

http://www.slashdot.org

The submission I made to Slashdot... was posted on DU early this morning. I called it the Scoop/DIEBOLD UBERPOST and posted it here... it is a bit loose. But this is a very big day for am amazing community of people over here.

"The Scoop/Diebold UBERPOST:

1) Ratings and Rantings from the South Pacific
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=82913&mesg_id=82913&page=
AND
& 2) Bev Is Everywhere MAN!!!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=82919&mesg_id=82919&page=

"Hopkins Heros and how the media blitz went down..." - Bev Harris

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=104&topic_id=82455&mesg_id=82455&page=2


All these are getting a good kicking as they say here at DU. And the scoop is here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=82913&mesg_id=82913&page=#83223


Kind Regards
Alastair Thompson
Scoop Media
New Zealand
http://www.scoop.co.nz

[althecat]

7. Here's slashdots original thread...

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/24/153258&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=126&tid=128&tid=99

It is very interesting especially this bit I reckon...

Your joke made me laugh. But the sad thing is that it is the whole point of voting machines.

A paper ballot and a pen is the only form of ballot I trust. And if they don't count the ballots AT THE POLLING PLACE in plain view of the public BEFORE they ship them off to the court house you can't trust the result.

Paper ballot boxes get tampered with all the time. A machine that most people couldn't understand is NOT going to make voting less prone to fraud. If I can't take apart the machanical voting machine to see if it works correctly and I can't look at the code of a computer program and see if it works correctly then why SHOULD I trust it?

We allready had a major election full of obvious vote fraud(On both sides. Bush was just better at it THIS TIME. Gore was just as crooked just not as effective.) Voting machines are just one more way to cloud the issue. A voting shell game run by slick con men.

DEMAND paper ballots! Demand that votes be counted and posted AT THE POLL. Any thing else is a sham!
Slashdot, home of supporters of free software, free music, and free speech.Except for Moderators that disagree with you.

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=72311&cid=6523886

[althecat]

8. Thanks that is fantastic... Would you consider linking the

Michael I knew I could count on you.

This may seem very presumptious but it may push slashdot into posting another story and that is what we really need.

At present the FIRE THE LIARS graphic you have in the middle at the top to the page is not linked to anything...

Would you consider linking that to us and sticking the words.

A VERY AMERICAN COUP

"In A Democracy To Fire Yous First Need To Learn To Count"

Like so....

I can provide instant feedback on how many readers it sends our way... we can tune it till we find the perfect headline...

Al



http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/
WHATREALLY HAPPENED IS ROCKING THIS WORLD AGAIN TONIGHT!

[althecat]

9. Thanks Michael...

check it out...

[althecat]

10. Georgia Offical Is Confidant In EVMs - http://www.gainesvilletimes.com

http://www.gainesvilletimes.com

Hall official is confident in voting machines


staff, wire reports


Hall and Marion counties became the first in Georgia to use the electronic voting system machines made by Diebold Election Systems in last August's primary election. All 159 counties used them in the November 2002 general election.

The state gave Hall County 276 of the machines last summer. Anne Phil-lips, Hall's election chief, said the county has since purchased 60 additional machines, bringing the total to 336. She said the department hopes to add 25 more in the next year.

A study released Thursday said the machines have significant security flaws.

But Phillips said Hall hasn't had any problems.

http://www.gainesvilletimes.com

[althecat]

11. So do we have a big fat zilch in the British Sunday papers then...

?

[MoonGod]

12. Yahoo search for "electronic voting"

http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=&p=electronic+voting

Only 4 stories yet that deal directly with the "black box" issue... We need to rate them!

:)

[althecat]

14. Diebold in Google Prison on Diebold Voting.... 207 stories...

http://news.google.com/news?q=diebold+voting&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&scoring=d&start=200&sa=N&filter=0

Firmly in Google News jail now... 207 stories on BBV so far. No sign of the limeys though that I can see.

WEEK IN REVIEW : July 20 - 26
Washpost

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48983-2003Jul26.html

[ninkasi]

13. Kick

n/t

[althecat]

15. Look No Hands..... Ready and waiting slash dot...

========================================
Weekly Summary Report
========================================
http://www.scoop.co.nz
Total Outages: 0.00
Total time on error: 00:00
Percent Uptime: 100.0
Average Connect time*: 0.30
Outages- the number of times we were unable to access this URL
Time on Error- the total time this URL was not available (hr:min)
% Uptime- the percentage this URL was available for the day
Connect Time- the average time in seconds to connect to this URL

With michael's link...

http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup

Is now getting 400+ views an hour and climbing fast.

[preciousdove]

16. MnPR Future Tense

FRIDAY, JULY 25, 2003
Listen http://news.mpr.org/play/ft_audio.php?media=/futuretense/daily/20030725

Computer security experts say an electronic voting system used in some states as an alternative to punch-card ballots is highly vulnerable to fraud. The study found ``significant security flaws'' with the underlying source code of a system designed by Diebold Election Systems.

Your Voice: Share your views in Soapbox http://forum.mpr.org/WebX?Soapbox@@
and the News Forum http://forum.mpr.org/WebX?14@@.ee6b2c6

http://news.mpr.org/programs/futuretense/

[althecat]

17. Keep this kicked until we have a new one...

Red and others... by all means start 1000s of new DIEBOLD threads.... but please index them here... that is what this is for. We are building a map of the meme space here.

[althecat]

18. Volunteers to be designated kickers... Good Night DU

Dear DU

I have had more fun on a computer today than I thought was possible. And it is all thanks to this wonderful place. Thanks for bringing me here Bev... I can see why you spend so much time here.

Tomorrow is Monday here and I will be back online from early Afternoon your time. Hopefully by then SlashDot will have woken up.

Designated Kickers...

The reason I want this post to be kicked to kingdom come. Is that it is linked to from.

http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup

Here...

Which thanks to http://WhatReallyHappened.com is picking up serious steam... Truth is All, Ani Yun Wiya, your posts are ROCKING... and VERY IMPORTANT kick this by linking them here.... and then you can share a bit of Michael's UBERTRAFFIC... When Slashdot finally links there will be thousands of new poeple coming to DU. Hi People!!! This is where it is at.

Meanwhile, there are new sources on this coming live every 10 minutes or so... So there is no reason it shouldn't be able to receive a kicking that keeps it fresh till I get back.

OVER AND OUT.... and this time I mean it.... :)

Later

[preciousdove]

19. Oh-oh We've been memed "technological hysteria"

Voting Security Study Faults Electronic Machines
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48983-2003Jul26.html
Washington Post WEEK IN REVIEW July 20-26
Sunday, July 27, 2003; Page C04

A touch-screen voting system that Maryland plans to buy and install in every precinct in the state -- for $55 million -- has security flaws that would allow voters to cast multiple ballots and enable poll workers to tamper with votes, according to a study by the Information Security Institute at Johns Hopkins University.

State officials who signed the contract said the report is one more example of "technological hysteria." Officials at Diebold Election Systems Inc., makers of the system, said that the Hopkins study was flawed and that the voting software had passed rigorous security tests

[punpirate]

21. It's an expected response from the people...

... who authorized the purchase of the machines. They're going to defend their decision-making process, no matter what. What needs to be said in this instance is simply: "do you believe Diebold salespeople, or Johns Hopkins University?" And, "you might save your state's elections if you simply do what you would do with your own family physician--get a second opinion."

*smile*

Cheers.

[InkAddict]

20. Given this some Essence

:kick:

[MoonGod]

22. The Register. Is this one?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31986.html

[punpirate]

23. A 6:00 am EDT 7/27 check for Limey news....

Small source:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/31986.html

Watch this one:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3095705.stm

And this:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993987

Don't think the Inquirer is that large, but:

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=10676

The Guardian:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-2952389,00.html

Reuters, UK:

http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID=3155955

ZDNet, UK:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2138179,00.html?rtag=zdnetukhompage

Australia:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/07/25/1059084190013.html

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/07/25/1059084190013.html

Croatia:

http://www.net-security.org/news.php?id=3207

India:

http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2003/103072506.asp

Malaysia:

http://star-techcentral.com/tech/story.asp?file=/2003/7/25/technology/5924414&sec=technology


And, a nice bit from Marcy Kaptur:

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20030726/NEWS05/107260115

She wants to talk a bit about voting machines with Avi Rubin.

Some may be dupes.

On edit, not all of these are from the Sunday papers. Some vary from the 24th to the 26th. But, some, having covered it on those days, may not repeat for Sunday editions. But, the fact that the BBC has picked this up means it will stay a while on their site.

Cheers.

[billyskank]

24. Please stop calling us Limeys

[peabody71]

25. Kick it.

[RedEagle]

26. Punpirate..

Wonderful lines!

Kick!

[althecat]

27. Good morning a couple of new links to evoting stories...

http://www.GuluFuture.com/diebold_scoop.htm

THE REAL SCOOP
ON DIEBOLD
25th July, 2003 by Fintan Dunne,
Editor http://www.GuluFuture.com

On 24th July, 2003 an important story broke. Johns Hopkins University researchers found that electronic voting machines are full of security flaws which can allow fraudulent election results. A scandal indeed.

But like many reported 'scandals' this is a pseudo-investigation. In truth, the news was two weeks old. Alternative media site Scoop.co.nz first broke the unabridged full story, by Bev Harris --back in early July, 2003.

[althecat]

28. VoterChoice Coalition: Integrity of Georgia's Elections at Risk!

http://www.voterchoice.org/

Press Release: VoterChoice Coalition
Integrity of Georgia's Elections at Risk!

"Yesterday, I was interviewed by a journalist from New Zealand. The international press understands how big this story is. This morning, updates to the web site of the Voter Choice Coalition finally went live. I'm writing to urge you to point your browser to this site and bone up on these issues.

http://www.voterchoice.org/

It will take every one of us speaking to our neighbors and elected officials to turn this situation around and create the opportunity for democracy in the midst of this crisis.

I urge you particularly to study the links from these pages:

http://www.voterchoice.org/pr.php

http://www.voterchoice.org/auditableballots.php

and to support passage of SB-340 in the Georgia Assembly and HR-2239 in the U.S. Congress. You'll find links to these bills and the contact information for the relevant Committee members on our site.

Please also use the new Constituent Feedback Form to update our Coalition's leadership on your conversations with your elected officials, by linking to:

http://www.voterchoice.org/recover.php3?returnto=index.php3&goto=http://www.greens.org/georgia/cf/constituentfeedback.php

FULL TEXT OF PRESS RELEASE ALSO HERE...
http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/WO0307/S00329.htm

[althecat]

29. Here at Scoop.

Dear DU.

Sorry about yesterday... you were very tolerant. I was a bit manic I know. Not the best frame of mind to meet new people. Today I am feel back on solid ground. So that is good... and I intend to stay here.

We have been getting good traffic overnight on.

http://scoop.co.nz/mason/features/?s=usacoup

Though still no slashdot link so nothing spectacular. I have added links to these campaigns to the page..

E-VOTING CAMPAIGNS
Bev Harris - http://BlackBoxVoting.org
Electronic Frontier Foundaton - http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2754
David Diill - http://VerifiedVoting.org
Georgia - http://VoterChoice.org

Dill's site seems to be down.... if anybody knows why I would be interested.

There are more campaigns out there so if people can send me the links or post them here it would be appreciated.


Al

[althecat]

30. Finally... a question... Should I remove these links

"Hopkins Heros and how the media blitz went down..." - Bev Harris
"The Scoop/Diebold UBERPOST: Ratings and Rantings from the South Pacific...." - Scoop Editor Alastair Thompson
-->> Live News - From The Underground <<--
Latest DU Media Monitoring Thread - Live Story Discussion

I wonder how appropriate it is to be driving traffic into these areas now. My original intention was for it to bring media to where they can find out a great deal more.... and see that it wasn't a fluke ... like they would have read in the Washpost. And also to take readers to where they can connect with others. On the other hand that can be done in other ways...

I could just link to the general DU general discussion forum Front Page. This would probably be sensible I think.

And do people know of any other discussion boards that have been going off on this. It would be good to link to those too.