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	Diebold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diebold was incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio in August, 1876, and is headquartered in Green, Ohio.
		Diebold's voting machines, which are made by its subsidiary Diebold Election Systems (DES), have caused a public uproar among some opponents, some of which are engaged in "electronic civil disobedience" against legal attempts by Diebold to stop the release and publication of a number of internal memos.
		Diebold attempted to stop the release and publication of a number of internal memos by sending cease and desist letters to sites hosting these documents demanding that they be removed in violation of the DMCA found in § 512 of the United States Copyright Act.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diebold (1218 words)

	Why War? Targeting Diebold with Electronic Civil Disobedience (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Diebold broke election law in a similar situation during the 2002 Georgia elections.
		Diebold’s use of the DMCA is absurd and their actions are irrelevant.
		Diebold is, by its corporate nature, providing proof for the suspicions of millions of people world wide who are now beginning to hear about this controversy.
	www.why-war.com /features/2003/10/diebold.html (3685 words)

	Analysis of an Electronic Voting System
		Throughout Diebold's response they seek to marginalize their dependence on cryptography (e.g., Diebold's responses to "allegation 1" and "allegation 8"), however the fact remains that although cryptography was used in their design, it was used incorrectly.
		In the Diebold code we analyzed, both the keys for the smartcard and the keys used to encrypt the votes were static entries in the source code.
		When Diebold's claims that "programming in any language can be safe or unsafe" (their responses to allegations 11, 71, and 72), they are really saying that they are unaware of one of the most fundamental improvements in software engineering since the invention of high-level programming.
	avirubin.com /vote/response.html (3458 words)

	Two voting companies & two brothers will count 80 percent of U.S. election using both scanners & touchscreens
		Their respective companies, Diebold and ESandS, will count (using both computerized ballot scanners and touchscreen machines) about 80 percent of all votes cast in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
		Even if states or counties hire their own technicians to re-program Diebold or ESandS software (or software from other companies), experts say that permanently installed software, called firmware, still resides inside both electronic scanners and touchscreen machines and is capable of manipulating votes.
		Diebold and ESandS have been involved in countless election irregularities over the years, involving both ballot scanners and touchscreens.
	www.onlinejournal.com /evoting/042804Landes/042804landes.html (842 words)

	Douglas W. Jones on the Diebold FTP Story
		The fact that Diebold's lawyers felt compelled to mention the lack of transformation or creative addition in their argument suggests that the same material with added commentary, for example, editorial comments on the memos explaining their significance, might be easier to defend than the same material without such additions.
		Diebold, milked the Rubin/VoteHere conflict for all it was worth when it came to light, and echoes of that public relations effort continue to color the perceptions of many about the validity of the Hopkins report.
		Diebold's August 19 Press release responding to Rubin's press release expresses "shock and dissapointment." [See Diebold Investor Relations, Diebold Responds to Johns Hopkins Professor's Disclosure of Relationship With Voting Industry Competitor.] This was circulated with a remarkably well-crafted set of supporting documents that selectively pick from the circulated media reports to build Diebold's case.
	www.cs.uiowa.edu /~jones/voting/dieboldftp.html (17389 words)

	Wired News: Students Fight E-Vote Firm
		The students are protesting efforts by Diebold to prevent them and other website owners from linking to some 15,000 internal company memos that reveal the company was aware of security flaws in its e-voting software for years but sold the faulty systems to states anyway.
		The memos were leaked to voting activists and journalists by a hacker who broke into an insecure Diebold FTP server in March.
		Diebold has been sending out cease-and-desist letters to force websites and ISPs to take down the memos, which the company says were stolen from its server in violation of copyright law.
	www.wired.com /news/business/0,1367,60927,00.html (803 words)

	Diebold Voting Machine Owner Committed To Give Votes To Bush in 2004
		The letter went out the day before Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, also a Republican, was set to qualify Diebold as one of three firms eligible to sell upgraded electronic voting machines to Ohio counties in time for the 2004 election.
		Diebold spokeswoman Michelle Griggy said O'Dell - who was unavailable to comment personally - has held fund-raisers in his home for many causes, including the Columbus Zoo, Op era Columbus, Catholic Social Services and Ohio State University.
		Blackwell said Diebold is not the only company with political connections - noting that lobbyists for voting-machine makers read like a who's who of Columbus' powerful and politically connected.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines03/0828-08.htm (816 words)

	portland imc - 2004.10.31 - The Presidency has been HACKED, hacker covert op in place via Diebold machines
		Diebold's newest ex-con came aboard to oversee the printing of paper ballots and punch cards produced for elections in several states; and Dean had by this time become a consultant.
		Diebold says Dean is no longer with the company; but as of April, 2004, John Elder remains with Diebold as manager of the company's printed-products division.
		Diebold Election Systems, based in the key battleground state of Ohio, is headed by Chairman and CEO Walden O'Dell, a George W. Bush pioneer, raising more that $100,000 for Dubya's election war chest.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2004/10/301469.shtml (4065 words)

	THE BRAD BLOG: "* EXCLUSIVE! * A DIEBOLD INSIDER SPEAKS!" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Diebold spokesman, Bear, was unable to confirm whether or not Diebold had updated its GEMS software in any way since the US-CERT Cyber Alert was released telling us only that "There's different versions of the software for different needs" and that he didn't know if patches, fixes or corrections were ever released by the company.
		Diebold didn't put elections "at risk." On the contrary, the whole idea was to eliminate the risk, i.e., that John Kerry might win Ohio and with it the election.
		Diebold seems to be the only one of the four who does not ever admit flaws with the system source codes.....and tries to hide all its connections to far-right neocons.
	www.bradblog.com /archives/00001838.htm (11347 words)

	The Agonist: Diebold Machines and Your Vote: Part II
		On September 28, 2003 the Agonist published an exclusive, “Diebold Machines and Your Vote” outlining the susceptibility of electronic voting machines to tampering and election fraud.
		Employees of Diebold Election Systems admit that they had been using an insecure FTP server to exchange and update some parts of Diebold's software, according to an interview conducted by B. Harris (author of the upcoming book Black Box Voting, currently available in PDF form at http://www.flboxvoting.com/) on Feb. 4.
		As others have noted, this behavior contradicts Diebold’s earlier claims that all the files were old and out of date and not used in elections.
	www.agonist.org /archives/009318.html (1622 words)

	EFF: Online Policy Group v. Diebold, Inc.
		Diebold, Inc., manufacturer of electronic voting machines, has been sending out many cease-and-desist letters to Internet Service Providers (ISPs), after internal documents indicating flaws in their systems were published on the Internet.
		“Diebold’s blanket cease-and-desist notices are a blatant abuse of copyright law,” said EFF Staff Attorney Wendy Seltzer.
		The documents include email messages written by Diebold employees describing security flaws in the systems, as well as email discussions about how to resolve, or in some cases, obfuscate those problems.
	www.eff.org /legal/ISP_liability/OPG_v_Diebold (734 words)

	Students buck DMCA threat \| CNET News.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		EFF attorneys say the case is the first time that someone who has received a "notice and takedown" request--one of the many Diebold made, repeatedly invoking the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA)--has attempted such a pre-emptive strike before being sued.
		In a November 2001 case that pitted the major movie studios against 2600 magazine, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that linking to illegal content can be restricted "consistent with the limitations of the First Amendment." That ruling is not binding on California courts.
		Diebold gave at least $195,000 to the Republican Party during a two-year period starting in 2000, and its chief executive, Walden W. O'Dell, once pledged to deliver Ohio's electoral votes for President George W. Bush.
	news.com.com /2100-1028_3-5101623.html (1148 words)

	Diebold's Political Machine
		And, when it comes to the Diebold board room, O'Dell is hardly alone in his generous support of the GOP.
		One of the longest-serving Diebold directors is W.R. "Tim" Timken.
		Diebold blamed the bizarre swing on a "faulty memory chip," which Harris claims is simply not credible.
	www.motherjones.com /commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html (2203 words)

	‘Gouging’ memo leaves Diebold red-faced \| The Register
		Diebold has its own answer to critics who want a verifiable paper trail.
		Diebold had told the Gazette that printers - required for the paper trail - would cost between $1,000 and $1,200 per machine.
		Diebold recently used the DMCA in attempt to oblige ISPs to take down the archive of internal correspondence, which surfaced this year after it was left on a public ftp server.
	www.theregister.co.uk /content/55/34526.html (396 words)

	Diebold Memos Disclose Florida 2000 E-Voting Fraud
		Tab Iredale - Diebold ES - 18 Jan 2001 13:31 If this problem is to be properly answered we need to determine where the 'second' memory card is or whether it even exists.
		Ken Clark - Diebold ES RandD Manager - 18 Jan 2001 16:42:50 I will be visiting with Lana on Monday and will ascertain the particulars related to the second memory card.
		In its internal conclusions about these events the CBS inquiry team found the two Diebold County level errors, Volusia and Brevard, were conclusive in their networks decision to call the race to Bush.
	www.dissidentvoice.org /Articles9/Thompson_Diebold-2000-Fraud.htm (7719 words)

	The Paperless Chase
		In them, Diebold employees fret over the voting machines' vulnerability to hackers and their alarming habit of going on the fritz.
		Diebold responded by sending a flurry of cease-and-desist letters to the various Internet service providers (ISPs), claiming that the information was protected by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act.
		"We thought we were kissing our futures goodbye." Ohio-based Diebold had revenues of $2.1 billion last year, and the two students and their pro bono legal team fully expected a countersuit.
	www.motherjones.com /news/hellraiser/2004/05/04_403.html (850 words)

	Wired News: New Security Woes for E-Vote Firm
		Representatives of Diebold Election Systems, one of the largest electronic voting systems vendors with more than 33,000 machines in service around the country, said the company is still investigating the security breach and reviewing the contents of the archive.
		The anonymous attacker said he broke into the Diebold staff site, which was located at https://staff.dieboldes.com, after reading in January about how unauthorized outsiders had copied source code and documentation from an insecure FTP site operated by the company at the Internet address ftp://ftp.gesn.com.
		After the earlier problems at Diebold's FTP site, Brit Williams of the Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University published a report last April noting (PDF) that some states, such as Georgia, carefully review source code prior to use in electronic voting systems.
	www.wired.com /news/privacy/0,1848,59925,00.html (1234 words)

	Salon.com Technology \| An open invitation to election fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Harris has found critical flaws in Diebold's voting software, and she's uncovered internal Diebold memos in which employees seem to suggest that the vulnerabilities are no big deal.
		The memos appear to be authentic -- Diebold even sent Harris a notice warning her that by posting the documents on the Web, she was infringing upon the company's intellectual property.
		The problems Harris found in Diebold's system are perhaps the best proof yet that electronic voting systems aren't ready for prime time.
	www.salon.com /tech/feature/2003/09/23/bev_harris/index_np.html (428 words)

	Consortiumnews.com
		Diebold’s chief executive is Walden O’Dell, a major Bush fundraiser.
		In an invitation to one Bush fundraising event at his mansion in Columbus, O’Dell wrote that he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes for the president.” He later expressed regret at his choice of language.
		For its part, Diebold denies that its systems are vulnerable to computer hacking, calling such allegations “fantasy.” [See Diebold’s statement.]
	www.consortiumnews.com /2004/110604.html (1752 words)

	Wired News: Con Job at Diebold Subsidiary
		Voter advocate Bev Harris alleged Tuesday that managers of a subsidiary of Diebold, one of the country's largest voting equipment vendors, included a cocaine trafficker, a man who conducted fraudulent stock transactions and a programmer jailed for falsifying computer records.
		Diebold spokesman Michael Jacobsen emphasized that the company performs background checks on all managers and programmers.
		The former GES is Diebold's wholly owned subsidiary, Global Election Management Systems, which produces the operating system that touch-screen voting terminals use.
	www.wired.com /news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html (666 words)

	110702otter
		this allowed the Diebold touch screen machines to change the way election fraud is carried out.
		Previously, election cheating was a complex matter of ballot tampering combined with sample skewing.
		Could it be the Diebold touch screen machines in use across the entire state of Georgia but not used at all in SC?
	www.bartcop.com /diebold.htm (1103 words)

	George W. Bush - Terrorist in the White House - Election Fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Diebold, electronic voting and the vast right-wing conspiracy February 24, 2004 - Diebold, located in North Canton, Ohio, does its primary business in ATM and ticket-vending machines.
		Diebold Internal Memos Admit Voting Machine Flaws (continued) by CONSPIRACY PLANET - In contrast to their rebuttal to the Johns Hopkins report,which confirmed serious flaws with the voting machine software, Diebold has never denied that Harris reviewed actual certified versions of its software used in real elections and never contended that her analysis is wrong.
		Diebold Internal Mail Confirms U.S. Vote Count Vulnerabilities By Alastair Thompson - The "GEMS (Microsoft) Access database" that Finberg refers to is a piece of computer software which is loaded onto county election supervisors computers.
	www.nogw.com /electionfraud.html (12705 words)

	Texas Safe Voting
		In the past few years, the Secretary of State has routinely adopted the recommendations of the panel, yet he has rebuffed efforts by the public to observe the proceedings, claiming that the panel is not subject to Texas’ Open Meetings Act.
		When Diebold's programmers wanted "patches," that is, changes, inserted into the voting-system software, Behler says, they sent them to him via the company's open, insecure File Transfer Protocol (FTP) site in cyberspace.
		The security of a Diebold system is equivalent to leaving your door open, and your front door key on the mat.
	safevoting.org (3872 words)

	Link To The Full Stash Of Diebold Memos... : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		When the material was taken down, Diebold then claimed that links to sites outside the US were infringing their copyright, and the ISP complied with the demand.
		Diebold is now sending cease and desist letters to ISP's telling them to remove the "infringing" page or site (ie Indymedia) or face the consequences.
		Diebold has been using coercive legal claims to intimidate internet service providers and even universities to shut down websites with links to its memos and remove the memo content.
	www.indybay.org /news/2003/09/1649419_comment.php (6352 words)

	The Free Press -- Independent News Media - Bob Fitrakis
		Diebold has already placed some 50,000 machines in 37 states and their track record is causing Harris, Johns Hopkins University professors and others great concern.
		Diebold went to court to stop, according to court records, the “wholesale reproduction” of some 13,000 pages of company material.
		Maybe the Diebold decision makes sense, if you believe, to paraphrase Henry Kissinger, that democracy is too important to leave up to the votes of the people.
	www.freepress.org /columns/display/3/2004/834 (2295 words)

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