Georgia: 22,000 Voting Machines Got a Program Fix, Right Before theElection -- MIDRANGE-L

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Subject: Georgia: 22,000 Voting Machines Got a Program Fix, Right Before theElection
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 11:35:23 -0500
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Saw this on another list,  thought it might be of interest to programmers.
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Georgia:
22,000 Voting Machines Got a Program Fix, Right Before the Election.

Black Box Voting
Did anyone look at the source code?
None of your business!
No one certified the patches  "No one is explaining the files in a folder
called "rob-georgia"

Read the whole story.

http://www.blackboxvoting.com/georgia-fix.html

<SNIP>
... identified the very real risk of an attack on voting machines through
the Windows operating system..  Did any of the "rob-georgia" patch files
from Diebold's unprotected FTP site make their way onto any of these cards?
<SNIP>

Windows,  There's that name again.
No mention of iSeries.

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