Diebold Gets Messed Up... Literally!

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The uglier side of technology gets a taste of what it had coming to it. ;D ;D ;D ;D

Words can't describe just how ecstatic this made me when I first read it!

This guy whoever he is, is now my hero. He should be commended for his efforts. I vote him for president. Without the use of corruptable electronic voting of course! This is the time for civil disobedience, a little necessary roughness if you know what I mean? Not against people, but against the rotten voting machines that hold us down. Drastic times call for drastic measures. Our country & the sanctity of Democracy are well worth the risks. Diebold better get out of our way or continue to face this kind of wrath.

www.newsnet5.com/politics/9146477/detail.html

Poll Rage? Man Breaks Machines At Polling Location


A 61-year-old man was arrested after an alleged poll rage incident, NewsChannel5 reported.

Officials said Marc A. Fenster was arrested after he knocked over two voting machines worth $2,700 each.

They also said he assaulted a 17-year-old outside the polling place.

Fenster faces disorderly conduct, obstructing official business and resisting arrest charges.

It took several people to restrain Fenster, who was trying to vote at a 4330 Jennings Road.

It's unclear what caused him to become upset.

It's not clear what upset him? Good God what fucking planet are these people from?

Several people needed to restrain him, how great is that?







The remnants of an angry citizen who stepped up to bat to defend his country from treacherous election thieves. What a beautiful sight to behold!

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Great!!!

Now if somebody would do something like that to higher ups.

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I hope this kind of rage becomes something of an epidemic forcing criminal companies like Diebold, ES&S & Sequoia to re-think their rigging ways and retreat back in to the shadows never to be seen or heard from again.

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BREAKING: SEC INVESTIGATION OF DIEBOLD UNDER WAY!
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission Announces 'Informal Inquiry' into Accounting Practices of ATM, E-Voting Giant!

Inquiry Comes on Heels of Recent Securities Fraud Class Action Litigation, Sharp Drop in Stock Value, Growing List of Security Vulnerabilities Discovered in Company's Electronic Voting Machines...

Just out from Reuters...

NEW YORK, May 9 (Reuters) - Diebold Inc. (DBD.N), one of the world's largest makers of automated teller and electronic voting machines, on Tuesday said staff at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission have begun an informal inquiry into how the company recognizes revenue.

North Canton, Ohio-based Diebold said it learned recently about the SEC inquiry and is cooperating. The company disclosed the inquiry in its quarterly report filed with the agency.

The investigation of Diebold by the SEC, which we had heard previously about through background sources over the past several months, comes on the heels of a class action Securities Fraud litigation suit, originally reported exclusively by The BRAD BLOG just before it was filed last December.

That suit came on the heels of a growing number of reports on the reliability and vulnerability of Diebold's electronic voting machines and concerns about their larger ATM division.

Last September, just days after we reported on an anonymous Diebold insider, nicknamed "DIEB-THROAT", who pointed us to a Dept. of Homeland Security "Cyber Security Alert" about vulnerabilities in Diebold's election software, the company's stock-prices plummeted more than 15%.

While the stock price has remained lower than the nearly all-time highs it had been at just prior to the sudden drop, the price per share has been slowing inching back up over the last several months since the resignation of former CEO Walden O'Dell who was apparently pushed out just prior to the filing of the Securities Fraud suit which complained of insider trading, stock price manipulation and other malfeasance by eight current and former top Diebold executives.

O'Dell had earned criticism after sending a fundraising letter to Republicans, prior to the 2004 President Election promising to deliver the state of Ohio to George W. Bush, for whom O'Dell was a top supporter.

O'Dell was quickly replaced by the President of the Diebold Elections division, Thomas Swidarski, who is also named in the class action litigation.

Problems continue to plague the North Canton, Ohio-based company's Electronic Voting Machine division. Last Friday, The BRAD BLOG filed a detailed report on the newest security vulnerability to be discovered in Diebold touch-screen voting machines. This particular vulnerability, just the latest in a string of more than a dozen serious flaws to be discovered since last December, has been described as a "major national security risk" and last week forced the state of Pennsylvania to "sequester" all of their new Diebold touch-screen systems until an attempted "fix" can be applied to mitigate the problem...

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Lawsuit Filed Against AZ Sec. of State to Halt Use, Purchase of Diebold, Sequoia Touch-Screen Systems in State!

Motion Demands Preliminary Injunction, Alleges E-Machines Are Not Secure, Not Fully Accessible to Disabled Voters
Suit is Latest in Growing Line of Similar Actions Being Taken Around the Country, SoS Brewer Continues to Duck Public Discussion of Issue or Support the Troops

John Gideon contributed to this report.

A group of Arizona voters have filed a Motion for Preliminary Injunction against Sec. of State Jan Brewer to halt the purchase of electronic touch-screen voting systems in the state made by both Diebold, Inc. and Sequoia Voting Systems.

The voters announced today that the motion was being filed in time to stop the use of the Diebold TSx and Sequoia Edge II systems in the state's upcoming 2006 elections, due to security, verifiability, and disability access problems with these systems.

In addition to the litany of security issues concerning Diebold's TSx, details from the most severe one to date were just revealed publicly last Friday with more chilling details filed in the Oakland Tribune by Ian Hoffman today, the suit also contends the machines, being purchased and implemented in many Arizona counties for the first time this year, are accessible only for a small number of voters with disabilities.

Indeed, on Monday, Diebold issued a press release about new disabled-accessible features that the company is now making available for their line of touch-screen voting machines. The press release can be seen as a tacit agreement, of sorts, that those systems had not been previously accessible to all disabled voters as required by the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA)…

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www.prisonplanet.com/articles/may2006/140506Diebold.htm

Diebold voting systems critically flawed

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This has always been my gripe with Franken.

Brad Says on Air America: 'Franken won't talk about this stuff!'
Discussing Electile Dysfunction, Ann Coulter, Al Franken and Air America on Air America's Marc Maron Show

I was in studio today with Marc Maron of Air America. First time on his show. A good guy (who got screwed by Air America, btw, when they dumped him from their national morning show.)

I thought I'd take the opportunity, while on Air America's air, to beat up a li'l on Air America, and Al Franken specifically, for not touching any of this Election Reform stuff.

That, Ann Coulter, and a few other rants in a very fast paced 12-minute appearance which I think you'll enjoy...


-- Brad on The Marc Maron Show [MP3]