[Beckwith]

> At the beginning of the test election the memory card programmed by Harri Hursti was inserted into an Optical Scan Diebold voting machine.

The memory card Harri inserted had to be a programmable-read-only-memory (PROM) card.

If it was one different than the Diebold version it would produce whatever results Harri programmed onto the "memory card programmed by Harri Hursti."

If you change the progam, the results will change.

If the Diebold machines use a Read-only (ROM) memory card, which I'm sure they do, nothing can change the algorithm.

This demonstration is total bullsh*t.

[steve86]

Well, then call it a defeatable ROM card.
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Memory cards are held in a compartment protected by a small plastic seal. However, these simple seals can be defeated, and Hursti has found evidence that the memory card can be reprogrammed without disturbing the seal by using a telephone modem port on the back of the machine.

The Hursti Hack, referred to as “the mother of all security holes” was first exposed in a formal report on July 4.
(http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVreport.pdf).