How to hack a Diebold voting machine

[john geraghty]

I found this on the net. Any thoughts as to it's veracity?

John

[CookieMonster]

Hack it? Hack it how, to what ends? Why do you need a USB flash drive? What's on it? What would doing that do?

Load of rubbish if you ask me.

[Auditor #9]

The opening poster on this thread has included an american video of a hearing where a former programmer of these very machines describes hacking them in detail. Listen out for 'programs written to eat themselves' and decompiling programs to investigate whether they were manually installed after the voting was over.

[Colada]

I think throwing that switch and inserting a blank USB stick will download the voting results!

[FutureTaoiseach]

I wonder is it appropriate to have hacking instructions posted on this forum.

[ManOfReason]

So while you have your screwdrive out are doing all this, what would the polling officers be doing? Calling the cops I would imagine. I have used an optical scan dibold machine (the kind used in NH) and it sits in the middle of the room with three or four election officers sitting around it.

Here are my steps for 'hacking' an irish ballot box.

1. On election go to you polling station late in the day. Locate the bollot box, ignore the people sitting around it.

2 Using a screwdrive open the box to reveal the mother load of ballots.

3. Take out the ballot papers.

4. Close the box and walk out the door, chuckling to yourself all the way.

[Akrasia]

A report into voting systems in Ohio concluded that the machines could easily be manipulated using nothing more than a magnet and a PDA
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/1 ... net-a.html

The U.S election system a complete mess.

[FutureTaoiseach]

A report into voting systems in Ohio concluded that the machines could easily be manipulated using nothing more than a magnet and a PDA
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/1 ... net-a.html

The U.S election system a complete mess.

I think Ohio is moving to a paper system by March but its up to the GOP legislature to fund that I think. Might prevent it happening again. Ohio Secretary of State Brunner is a Democrat and she claims the Republicans and Democrats seem interested in helping but we will see.

[sackville]

Computer Programmer testifies that Tom Feeney (Speaker of the Houe of Florida at the time, currently US Representative representing MY district ) tried to pay him to rig election vote counts.

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if this testimony doesn't raise doubts what will?

[ManOfReason]

A report into voting systems in Ohio concluded that the machines could easily be manipulated using nothing more than a magnet and a PDA
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/1 ... net-a.html

The U.S election system a complete mess.

Diebold (ES&S) may be the 'the largest voting machine company in the country -- the company's machines are used in 43 states.' However that quote is a little disingenuous, firstly by far most of their machines in use are of the optical scan variety, which cannot be 'hacked' in the manner described in this article. Secondly 'used in 43 states' is also needlessly (and suspiciously) misleading as each County decides what type of machine they use, so in theory dibold machines might only be used in 43 counties out of 3143. Obviously they are used in more counties than that but you have to wonder as to the author's motivation in not identifying the number of counties rather than rounding up (geographilly) to the number of states.

EVERY voting method has its vulnerabilities, touch screen maybe more than others, but by trying to extrapolate this to the whole U.S election it seems someone is desperate to explain why everyone doesn't vote like he thinks they should.

In the same manner one could wonder how FF came from way behind in the last election to get back into government. After all who watches all the ballot boxes between the voting centre and the counting centre? Many counting centres don't start the count until the next day, what happens to the ballots during that time? Hmmm...funny hw people on this site fret about the U.S. electrola system while assuming ours is just fine.