RE: Georgia: 22,000 Voting Machines Got a Program Fix, Right Before the Election

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mechanical voting machines offered some interesting opportunities too.  <g>

> -----Original Message-----
> From: jpcarr@tredegar.com [mailto:jpcarr@tredegar.com]
> Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 8:35 AM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Georgia: 22,000 Voting Machines Got a Program Fix, 
> Right Before
> the Election
> 
> 
> 
> Saw this on another list,  thought it might be of interest to 
> programmers.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 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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