Exclusive: Diebold 'Nukes' Humboldt County

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Source: BRAD BLOG



Exclusive: Diebold 'Nukes' Humboldt County!
Company terminates all contracts - including voter registration system - following county's discovery, disclosure of major flaws in Diebold/Premier voting systems...

At the California Secretary of State's public hearing regarding the possible decertification of Diebold's tabulator systems, GEMS v1.18.19, in relation to the "Deck Zero" covert deletion of 197 ballots in the November election, the audit log's magical "clear" button, and the GEMS audit logs failing to report when ballots were manually deleted by the operator, Diebold/Premier representatives tried to shift blame for the 197 deleted ballots onto Humboldt County, CA's Registrar of Voters Carolyn Crnich.

Crnich responded, "If you're saying that your system needs to be checked every damn time we turn it on, I agree with you."

Crnich's use of an expletive seems to have pushed Diebold/Premier's legal counsel over the edge, causing them to reach for and firmly press the "nuke" button in response, by petulantly informing the county of termination of licensing for the use of any of the company's products...

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[EFerrari]

1. Good going, Carolyn! Ha!

Make these criminals out themselves. :woohoo:

[LakeSamish706]

2. Now we just need the rest of the States that have these crap machines to do the same. n/t

[aquart]

3. Dyn-O-mite!

Let's offend them some more. Fuck you, Diebold! Take your machines and stuff 'em up your ass!

Hmm. That felt good.

[tridim]

4. Damn stoners and their clean elections.

Maybe this is the real reason why the RW is so against Cannabis legalization?

[pleah]

5. K&R Hahahaha!

Crnich's use of an expletive seems to have pushed Diebold/Premier's legal counsel over the edge, causing them to reach for and firmly press the "nuke" button in response, by petulantly informing the county of termination of licensing for the use of any of the company's products...


The word damn pushed legal counsel over the edge? Ahahahahaha!

[Oak2004]

23. Odd, because I'll bet that away from hearings, the lawyer and others from Diebold are talking

about that "fucking" county.

[santamargarita]

6. I'd like to see Diebold nuked out of business

Good!

[tabbycat31]

7. major ditto

[sofa king]

8. What, are they high?

[Stevepol]

9. If I can't steal elections, I'll take my marbles and go home.

[sam sarrha]

10. i'll buy em all for $5 each, turn em into PacMan games.. so PacMan can Cheat.. steal your Quater

[Gregorian]

11. Take back America.

YES!

[Semi_subversive]

12. I'm traveling to Arcata in a couple of weeks

to visit my son. I'll have to drop in and thank her personally.

[No Elephants]

13. Pressure Congress to do something about this in time for a clean

election in 2010!

[tomreedtoon]

14. So what does this mean? No countersuits?

The county should be fully within its rights to sue Diebold. Aren't they doing anything?

[BradBlog]

22. I sure hope so! Stay tuned (and feel free to send them your suggestion!) n/t

[nashville_brook]

15. remind me...who thought it was a good idea to privatize voting?

[MasonJar]

16. How can any state still be using these machines? We need paper ballots.

And that means period. One dem and one pug can count together. Voting sites are not that big or if some are, then they can be split. The crooked Bushista style elections must never happen again. Those crooks almost turned us into a dictatorship.

[BeFree]

18. Yep, almost

Came damn close they did. Thanks to Brad and DUers Guvworld and many many others, the machines are the new age dinosaurs going extinct before our very eyes. Good Riddance!

[mike_c]

25. in fairness, most of the Diebold machines in Humboldt County are optical scan...

...not touch screen, i.e. there is automatically a paper ballot associated with each vote.

[superconnected]

17. The Obama Administration needs to set requirements for national election machines used

Specifically for auditing requirements and against security flaws.

We're lucky we got him in after two elections, but let's not forget that Obama had massive support but still barely won. Sure he won so many states, but usually close. Election fraud was still rampant the last time around.

[thedeanpeople]

19. k&r

[bemildred]

20. Is this supposed to be bad? nt

[TankLV]

21. Try as I might, I can't find the downside for US in all this...

MEMO TO DIEBOLD: GET THE FUCK OUT OF HERE ALREADY!!!

And I hope you bang your head on the door on your way out...

[mike_c]

24. as a Humboldt County resident...

...I say good riddance, Diebold!