Miami-Dade Police to guard vote machines in days before next election

The Miami Herald ^ | 10-19-02 | JAY WEAVER

[Diogenesis]

Presumably this means that the Democrats have finally learned how
to alter the results in the machines remotely.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

He said 25 teams found dozens of minor electrical and telephone-connection problems at 15 polling places and made the repairs.

I hope they have UPS for these things.

And it wouldn't do to have problems with the telephone lines connected to them; when the command is sent out over the phone line to give the Democrats more votes, we wouldn't want the modem to be down!

[LibWhacker]

[ovrtaxt]

Im in FL too. I don't trust this system AT ALL. The possibilities for vote fraud are easily achievable by someone with a good grasp on computer skills.(As long as they knew the source code-- who is the company who wrote it? We know for sure that they benefitted from a big government contract, so they would certainly be inclined to favor the big spending politicians....)

As many people got weapons past the airport screeners over the past year in order to demonstrate the lack of security, I wish someone would hack their way into this system and add about 500,000 votes for Mickey Mouse, then promptly take credit as a 'concerned citizen'.

The trouble is, it can only be done while the machines are on line during the election.

[Tom Bombadil]

''A lot of people are taking this to heart because they don't want us to be the joke of the nation,''

Too late.

[mewzilla]

Gueards the vote machines they could find. Those missing 13 ever turn up? Or will they turn up, after having been properly adjusted, right before the election?

[randita]

''A lot of people are taking this to heart because they don't want us to be the joke of the nation,'' said Miami-Dade spokeswoman Nelda Fonticiella. ``We're going to get this right.''

Ms. Fonticiella, your own Democrat Party turned you into a laughing stock and you willingly participated. Your suddenly found sense of pride rings hollow.

On another note, is there any news about those 18 voting machines that couldn't be located?

[mewzilla]

If those missing machines turn up right before the election, I hope they're checked out...

[Republic]

Those missing 13 ever turn up?

I hope, if they haven't, that each machine is somehow electronically tagged etc. so that if votes begin showing up from the missing machines-they will be discounted immediately.

[mewzilla]

Well, the scarier thought is that maybe those were the machines they didn't have a chance to get to.

[tomkat]

so that if votes begin showing up from the missing machines-they will be discounted immediately.

of course they will ...

[Republic]

Your FIsher-Price Voting Device is hysterical! LOL oh LOL!

I really think Rush would love to have this on his website-as would Hannity and many others. Tooooo funny! Hey florida folks-a poster of this placed around Miami Dade County would be terrific! He he!

[Consort]

While no ballot machines were stolen in those elections,...

It was reported that 17 or 18 new machines were stolen in one of the Florida counties. Whoever stole them has had enough time to reverse engineer them and figure out how to rig them for fraud. Also, the workers who manufacture them know how to rig them for fraud.

[The Wizard]

and what about the 18 missing machines that are by now filled with McBirdy vote

[Sender]

Yep, those 18 machines are now down in the lab, deep in the DNC dungeons of mischief. It only takes a "smart card" programmer to enable thousands of extra votes, and I'm sure there are more direct and efficient ways to "inject" a few thou into RAM. And there won't be any hanging chads this time...just a hanging Jed. The fix is in.

[GRRRRR]

There is NO question in my mind that these machines have been "figured out". Just look at this website in FL: HERE

This is the html version of the file http://www.essvote.com/pdf/iv031102.pdf.

GO to this link and review the INFO on the Ivotronic machines available...GOOGLE SEARCH I am quite familiar with various software validation processes that MUST be accomplished to PROVE that when you push the "ON" button, that a PLC controlled machine actually turns "ON"...or rotates and does what the code says it is supposed to do.

The "general public"--people who run and operate these machines get no training on validation and qualification of how these things are supposed to work.

You can be sure that there are little to no WRITTEN protocols that: Identify each smart card by a BARCODE and then verify each iVotronic machine by barcode. Each pair should then be compared against a master list.

TWO people should then sign and verify that each machine has been set up and operating correctly.

At the completion of voting, each machine must be rescanned and each smart card removed and barcode scanned. ANY deviation in ID should invalidate that machine. This is an absolute minimum thing that should be happening. BUT these people who run the polling places are NOT technically adept or knowledgeable. They can't even PROGRAM a VCR!! I have SEEN supposedly professional people with full degrees admit they can't even use their cell phone....makes you wonder who told them to get out of bed in the AM??

You can BET, that NOTHING like this goes on...there are going to be smart cards lying about on desks in the polling place---"Oh, HERE'S another one...put it in with the others..." they will say.

AND, it's NOT JUST IN FLA!! The lying DEMOSOCIALISTS will be doing this everywhere... These machines use a "smart card" flash device to capture the votes. The card

[sweetliberty]

I don't trust it either. Rats have proven that when there is a will there's a way to alter votes and I don't feel the least bit better about electronic voting machines.

[sweetliberty]

"Those missing 13 ever turn up?"

That was 18 and supposedly they "turned up" in Iraq to help with their voting process. Yeah, and we see how that turned out. I thought that was a joke when I first heard it. Now I don't know what to think.

[GRRRRR]

Ooops, DISREGARD last sentence please...coffee on board now.