Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked (A "progressive" whine ...)

Saturday, November 6, 2004 | Thom Hartmann

[Hard Way]

As if Reno was a threat to Jeb! Yeah, I'm sure she had the Cuban ex-pat vote locked up. The only threat Reno would have been to Jeb would be in an arm-wrestling match...

[dixie_conservative]

Pardon me for pointing this out, but the 'crack' demonstrated in the article you linked consisted of physically sitting at the machine ...

Yep, I know. If one cannot control physical access then any real security on a PC is moot. It would be interesting to find out how the Tabulator gets the data to tabulate. Via modem? Diskette? CD-R? Of course there would have to be a large conspiracy to compromise the Tabulation PCs in enough places to matter in a national election. That in itself makes the whole scenario extremely unlikely.

[Hermann the Cherusker]

And they had left no tracks whatsoever, Harris said, noting that it would be nearly impossible for the election software – or a County election official - to know that the vote database had been altered.

Ignoring, of course, the fact that the parties take down independent counts of each precinct in front of the judge of elections and report them to Party HQ for independent tablulation.

How dumb are these people? Have they ever actually participated in an election?

[Born to Conserve]

First rule when doing naughty things: don't get caught.

Hacking the central tabulator would be a certain way of getting caught. Every scanner would have it's own report, printed out before any data ever got sent to the central tabulator where the hack supposedly occurred. Can we say "paper trail"? I guess we have to assume that those 10,000 democrat lawyers are morons for this scenario to play out.

Just silly fiction.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

The machines aren't hooked up to a network.

Well, actually they are...for a short time several times on Nov. 2nd when they dial up and upload results periodically. An easy matter to intercept and corrupt that data.

[thoughtomator]

OK so what is generally prescribed for hysteria and delusion? I need to make an investment but can't decide which among the pharmaceutical companies has the brightest future...

[VeniVidiVici]

An easy matter to intercept and corrupt that data.

Really? Where is the "in"?

[BenLurkin]

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Good grief, yes we have seen this crap before and you know it. Go away newbie, back to du land.

P. S. I have pinged the mods to have this thread deleted.

[dixie_conservative]

Good grief, yes we have seen this crap before and you know it.

No, I did not "know it".

Go away newbie, back to du land.

What is "du land"? Further, what is your problem with me? I've done nothing but post info that bothered me to try to get other FR readers takes on it. Look at my posting history. Is there any evidence in any post I have made that I am something other than a conservative? You are Judge and Jury for my posts? Good grief yourself. :-/

[dixie_conservative]

Oh! That hat is FUNNY! :-D

[dixie_conservative]

Ah ha! I see by reading your recent posting history you are pretty quick to pass judgement on any "newbie" that posts something you don't like. Ok, I know to ignore you now. Thanks for the heads up.

I also found out by using "Search site" that DU means Democratic Underground. Now that is a sad site indeed. I don't believe I will be reading posts over there very often.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Really? Where is the "in"?

Not sure. I read an article posted here on FR the weekend before the election about some counties that had testing done by some outside agency for this type of thing and they were able to intercept the data at the time of transmission.
As a result, they were told not to transmit electronically but to hand deliver results until a hardening could be done. Don't know whether they followed this advice or not.

[jrestrepo]

perfect