VOTES FOUND ON MACHINES IN PHILLY, BEFORE POLLS OPEN(Gun made visible to scare Poll Watchers)

Drudge Report ^ | 11/2/04

[Conservative4Ever]

Bwahahahahahaha....maybe he is having a bad hair day?

Red

[theshadow3581]

ush addressing this now..........

[to the core]

Lighten up, it's a joke!

[theshadow3581]

Rush.........

[k2blader]

I hope they can find and jail the people responsible.

[mcg1969]

No problem, mirkin. Thanks for replying. Now get out there, VOTE, and relax! Sounds like we're doing well.

[international american]

;-)

[Jimmur74]

Sorry....Nerves :)

[Eastbound]

The leaves on my tree all fell off within seconds of each other -- like a cascade. It must be a male tree. ;>

[TexKat]

Bookmark

[Mo1]

Ohhhh.. why didn't someone do something about this voting stuff before this election? It is so damned important.

Because that city is owned by the Dems

You should have hear the stories from the Mayoral election

A union thug whacked a poll watcher in the head with a 2X4

[Libertina]

Lord, I keep praying that these keep being uncovered. THANK YOU for answering our prayers!

[Revel]

"The other two counter storage tables are contained in the memory cartridge, stored in Read Only Memory in an integrated circuit. This memory retains information even when electrical power is removed; it can only be erased electronically..."

More correctly called EPROM(Erasable Programable Read Only Memory)

[OldFriend]

The cheaters, despite their shananegans, lost by one vote.

They knew we knew and didn't dare to call for a recount.

Scheduled another election. The votes swamped the machines in our tiny district.....went over 1,000 and those votes were lost. In the end they KNEW, admitted the machine lost the votes and the declared DEFEAT.

It was ugly, polarizing, threats made and friendships destroyed.

Lest anyone think their one vote doesn't count......GO OUT AND VOTE......even if you are in a state where the outcome is certain, you must VOTE.

[OldFriend]

Supposedly the BreckGirl is in Wisconsin and will be making 50 radio interviews today in the south.

Seems like politicking for himself for the future.

[sure_fine]

J Edwards finally gets hair done

[OldFriend]

Good news because the media is suggesting that slick willie's appearance in ARK will swing the state blue.

[Anti-Bubba182]

Philadelphia City Commissioners Office Report on Proposed "Ballot Receipts" Risk Assessment of Danaher Controls DRE Electronic Voting System and Philadelphia Procedure

".. * DRE EVM Results Table Secrecy

Votes recorded on the EVM are not accessible while it's in POLLS OPEN status. Results can only be obtained after the polls have closed. It is not possible to program the memory chip in the MC to earlier states; it is a one-way operation.

Once the status moves from "polls ready to open" to "polls open" and finally to "polls closed" the EVM refuses to "back track" to an earlier status. Once the polls are closed on the EVM, the machine will recognize this fact and refuse to "regress" to an earlier condition, i.e. permit the re-opening of the polls on any given MC and allow the continued recording of voter choice sets. The EVM will not let anyone add votes to an MC that has been closed.

There are no telecommunication lines linking the EVMs to the tabulating workstations at RTCs, CTCC, or BTCC. Election night vote tallies can only be obtained after the polls have closed, the MCs transported to the RTC by the Philadelphia Police Department, read on the RTC workstations, and transmitted to the CTCC.."

If the bold is true, what are the Poll watchers looking at?

[SunkenCiv]

"The Kerry Campaign says reports of votes already on machines is 'false.'" Uh-huh. And Bush lied. And Kerry was in Cambodia for the 1968 holiday season. And Bush wants to reinstate the draft. And a tax cut for taxpayers is a tax cut for the rich only.

George W. Bush will be reelected by a margin of at least ten per cent

[Anti-Bubba182]

That's is what I thought. As I recall Eproms are erased by a UV light erasure and programmed on an Eprom programmer. The only way to hack the machine would be to get the chip from a machine read the code, modify and replace it.

The link went on:

* EMS Security

The hardware configuration uses a multi-tier password protection scheme. The Guardian EMS has 4 levels of security including user ID and password in addition to access level and function. The EMS protects the data files through an Access mode which, locks the database and refuses to allow any modifications or changes therein. The EMS has an audit log function that tracks user activities on the system. When a user logs on to the system, the audit trial starts by recording the name of the user and the date and time he or she logged on and the modules the user accessed.

Election database setup in the EMS is encrypted, locked and password protected to prevent anyone from tampering or altering any codes or programs for tabulating votes. City election personnel will not have access to EMS source code and it will not be available for public inspection. The source code will be placed in escrow. Vendors and escrow agents who have access to source codes will not have access to the system for programming the DRE EVMs for elections.

The EMS is a closed loop system; it is completely secure from outside access where one might gain access to the System. Typically, if the System had the ability to be accessed through a dial up modem for entry to the file system, there could be a breach of security on the network. This feature is not available in the Guardian EMS. City Commissioners' personnel will install any EMS updates from Danaher Controls directly on the System...."

How good this is in practice is another question.