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PuppyBismark Donating Member (200 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 11:08 AM
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Cuyahoga County Ohio Possibly Exposed Election System to Computer Virus
Cuyahoga County Ohio Possibly Exposed Election System to Computer Virus

By: Election Science Institute
Published: Nov 2, 2006 at 08:04


The memory cards that will be used to store votes on Election Day in Cuyahoga County, Ohio were stuck into ordinary laptop computers in September, possibly exposing the county's election system to a virus infection. This serious security lapse was caught on video through the efforts of Cleveland resident Adele Eisner and Cleveland-area filmmaker Jeffrey Kirkby, who has graciously made his raw footage available on the Internet for personal viewing here.

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<http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_44962.shtml>

This is a heavy Democratic area of OHIO!!
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bif Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 11:23 AM
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1. These guys are utterly shameless
Do they think they won't get caught?
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montanacowboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 11:26 AM
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2. I am still in shoc,k from seeing these assholes
on Hacking Democracy last night; my God what a bunch of HACKS - they totally and absolutetly stole the 2004 election by phonying up the recount system -

and they all stood there barefaced lying; Cleveland, what a cesspool for election hacks
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 12:38 PM
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3. This is horrifying......
Edited on Fri Nov-03-06 12:39 PM by CaliforniaPeggy
What can be done to remedy the situation?

Especially when they defend their actions and carry on as though everything is OK?

On edit: K&R
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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Nov-03-06 02:34 PM
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4. The laptops and the voting machines are using
the same programs and operating system?

I want to find that hard to believe.
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