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	Diebold, Incorporated - Knowmore
		Diebold, Incorporated is a security systems corporation which is engaged primarily in the sale, manufacture, installation and service of self-service transaction systems (such as ATMs), electronic and physical security products (including vaults and currency processing systems), and software and integrated systems for global financial and commercial markets.
		Diebold Election Systems, a subsidiary of Diebold, surrounded by controversy, has recently entered the business of creating electronic voting terminals and solutions for government entities.
		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.
	www.knowmore.org /index.php/Diebold,_Incorporated (1725 words)

	Diebold Election Systems - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Diebold Elections Systems is currently run by Bob Urosevich [1] who has worked in the election systems industry since 1976.
		In December 2003, an internal Diebold memo was leaked to the press, sparking controversy in Maryland.
		Diebold attempted to stop the publication of these internal memos by sending cease and desist letters to sites hosting these documents, demanding that they be removed.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diebold_Election_Systems (2631 words)

	Verified Voting Foundation : Diebold Election Systems Election Manual For Staff
		This document is intended for Diebold Election Systems, Inc. staff attending elections, and attempts to address the majority of representati ve situations that may be encountered at an election.
		As representative of Diebold on election day, you will be considered the paragon of knowledge and authority with respect to the jurisdictionâs election, even though you may in fact be the least qualified person on site.
		Election results reports should be printed with as limited options as possible in order to minimize any confusion possible in the presentation of results (ie.
	www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org /article.php?id=6233 (8509 words)

	Diebold - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Diebold, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) is a security systems corporation that is engaged primarily in the sale, manufacture, installation and service of self-service transaction systems (such as ATMs), electronic and physical security products (including vaults and currency processing systems), and software and integrated systems for global financial and commercial markets.
		Diebold was incorporated under the laws of the State of Ohio in August 1876, and is headquartered in Green, Ohio.
		Diebold Election Systems, a subsidiary of Diebold that accounts for 2.4% of its gross revenue, has entered the business of creating electronic voting terminals and solutions for government entities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Diebold (491 words)

	Diebold voting systems critically flawed
		A representative of Diebold Election Systems could not immediately be reached for comment on the SEC inquiry or the design flaw, but Pennsylvania's memo to election officials stated that the company had confirmed the vulnerability and acknowledged that the issue could be used to load malicious software on an election system.
		Instead, the systems need to be opened up, the on-board system rewritten, and the machines need to be sealed up permanently, she said.
		At the end of March, Florida's attorney general subpoenaed voting systems makers (http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/060329/voting_dispute.html) to testify as to why they refused to sell machines to one Florida county whose election supervisor is an outspoken critic of the reliability and security of the machines.
	www.prisonplanet.com /articles/may2006/140506Diebold.htm (2643 words)

	Stanford Center for Internet and Society (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Diebold erroneously claimed that our clients, two Swarthmore college students, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s client, a local ISP, had infringed the company’s copyrights by hosting or publishing internal memos that showed that the company knew its evoting machines did not work properly and were hiding this fact from county elections officials around the country.
		Diebold filed papers with the District Court today claiming that the case is moot because the company has stated that it decided not to sue the Swarthmore students or OPG.
		Diebold filed papers with the Court today indicating that it “has decided not to take the additional step of suing for copyright infringement for the materials at issue.
	cyberlaw.stanford.edu /about/cases/opg_pavlosky_smith_v_dieb.shtml (645 words)

	LWN: Diebold election insecurity systems
		Diebold even conveniently provides an external switch, accessible to a voter, that could be used to trigger the dormant code.
		This is not the first time that Diebold security has been found to be woefully inadequate and, once again, the company does not seem to understand the problem.
		Also, all these election officials have already purchased these crappy systems and they don't want to have the egg on their face and admit that this was a bad purchase - so it's a face saving thing.
	lwn.net /Articles/184111 (5245 words)

	Douglas W. Jones on the Diebold FTP Story
		Diebold has emphasized, in some of their presentations about this system, that it was developed under an ISO 9000 compliant development process.
		It is clear from this dialogue that Diebold considered it within their authority to install new releases of Windows CE to fix minor bugs in the voting system, even within a month of the use of that system in some election.
		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)

	Salon.com Technology \| An open invitation to election fraud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Not only is the country's leading touch-screen voting system so badly designed that votes can be easily changed, but its manufacturer is run by a die-hard GOP donor who vowed to deliver his state for Bush next year.
		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.
		In its ruling, the 9th Circuit Court put the election on hold until the six counties that currently use punch-card systems -- six counties that comprise 44 percent of the state's voters -- upgrade their systems.
	archive.salon.com /tech/feature/2003/09/23/bev_harris (495 words)

	Secretary Cox Announces Selection of Diebold Election Systems to Provide New Statewide Electronic Voting System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Diebold was one of nine election equipment manufacturers who submitted bids for consideration by the state.
		Georgia is the only state in the nation to adopt a single, statewide solution for the upgrade of election equipment, to deploy it simultaneously in every county, and to pay for its acquisition solely with state, rather than county, funds.
		Federal election reform legislation, which includes authorization for funds to assist states with equipment upgrades, has passed both houses of Congress and currently is in a House-Senate conference committee.
	www.sos.state.ga.us /pressrel/050302.htm (2252 words)

	Diebold Election Systems
		Over 130,000 Diebold electronic voting stations are being used in locations across the United States to assist voters in exercising their most fundamental constitutional right: the right to vote.
		Diebold Election Systems provides accessibility and empowerment to the widest population of voters.
		When a voter casts their ballot using the Diebold touch screen system, the ballot selections are immediately encrypted and stored in multiple locations within the voting station, providing security and reliable redundancy.
	www.diebold.com /dieboldes (212 words)

	Diebold voting systems critically flawed
		The call--from election watchdog BlackBoxVoting.org--described a critical vulnerability in Diebold Election Systems' touchscreen voting systems that could allow any person with access to a voting terminal the ability to completely change the system code or ballot file on the system.
		While researchers and civil rights groups have voiced strong criticism of electronic voting technology--and in particular the systems' security--the national elections held in November 2004 saw only small problems that would likely not have impacted the outcome of the election.
		And, while older machines and the method for counting votes tallied by the older technology were easily understood by the average voter, electronic voting systems have become more impenetrable and have not undergone significant and public testing, according to computer scientists that have called for more rigorous security testing.
	www.securityfocus.com /news/11391?ref=rss (710 words)

	Diebold Election Systems Under Attack by Ellen Messmer
		Computer-science researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Rice University are heaping criticism on electronic voting machines built by Diebold Election Systems, based on software code for the machine said to have been posted publicly to the Internet by an activist.
		For one thing, the electronic voting system could be easily exploited by an individual or group intent on tampering with election results.
		Diebold's official response to the July 23 Johns Hopkins research report was that the company would "reserve judgment on the researchers' fundamental conclusions," and Diebold noted the researchers themselves acknowledged they could not be wholly sure the code was actually from Diebold.
	www.rawfoodinfo.com /articles/art_dieboldsysattack.html (727 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 (1223 words)

	Diebold's Political Machine
		Election officials restarted the machine, and expressed confidence in the eventual results, which showed Gore beating Bush by 97,063 votes to 82,214.
		Diebold blamed the bizarre swing on a "faulty memory chip," which Harris claims is simply not credible.
		Equally troubling, of course, is the fact that the touch-screen systems Diebold, ES&S, and the other companies have on the market now aren’t designed to generate a polling place paper trail.
	www.motherjones.com /commentary/columns/2004/03/03_200.html (2338 words)

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		Urosevich created the original software architecture for Diebold Election Systems, and his original company, called I-Mark Systems, can be found in the source code signatures.
		Prior to programming for and taking over Diebold Election Systems, Urosevich programmed for and was CEO of Election Systems and Software (ESandS), which counts 56 percent of the votes in the United States.
		Diebold and ESandS, together, count about 80 percent of the votes in the United States.
	www.votefraud.org /who_owns_diebold.htm (478 words)

	Diebold Election Systems - SourceWatch
		Diebold Election Systems (ref. parent Diebold Inc.) is a provider of "direct recording electronic (DRE) voting solutions" [1], or voting machines.
		Bob Urosevich, the first CEO of Diebold Election Systems was also the founder of ESandS, a competing voting machine company now owned by the McCarthy Group.
		On October 13, 2003, it is reported that a former worker in Diebold's Georgia warehouse says the company installed patches on its machines before the state's 2002 gubernatorial election that were never certified by independent testing authorities or cleared with Georgia election officials.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Diebold_Election_Systems (1580 words)

	Scoop: Diebold Confirms U.S. Vote Count Vulnerabilities
		At the time of the breach Wired quoted representatives of Diebold Election Systems, saying the company was investigating the security breach and reviewing the contents of the archive.
		The election supervisor or anyone else with administrator access to the Windows NT machine running the tally - which is hackable by definition as Windows NT is hackable - can alter the vote tally in the course of an election and delete any evidence of their tampering with impunity.
		And so in a single email message Diebold Election Systems' Ken Clark has effectively placed not only his own competence and integrity into question, but also that of the official voting software certification lab and that of numerous election officials.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0309/S00106.htm (2500 words)

	Douglas W. Jones on the Diebold FTP Story, Aug. 6, 2003 summary
		The Wyle Labs report on this system described it as the best voting system software they had ever examined; the embedded software for this system was written in C++ and ran under Windows 95, using a clever seeming smartcard-based system for voter authentication [5].
		Unfortunately, the Elections Division office of the Iowa Secretary of State has no record of whether a copy of this letter was or was not forwarded to Global Election Systems, but I have repeated this story several times since.
		Furthermore, Diebold's July 30, 2003 technical rebuttal of the Hopkins study says they were unable to find my claim of problems in their work [10; allegation #45]; such denial is disingenuous given that Robert Urosevich, now president of Diebold Election Systems, was present when this issue was first raised.
	www.cs.uiowa.edu /~jones/voting/dieboldusenix.html (1717 words)

	Scoop: Sludge Report #154 – Bigger Than Watergate!
		Such a system would enable you to intervene in precisely the minimum number of races necessary to ensure that you won a majority on election night.
		Such a system would enable you to target and remove individual political opponents who were too successful, too popular or too inquisitive.
		Bob Urosevich, CEO of Diebold Election Systems is also the founder of ES&S, a competing voting machine company.
	www.scoop.co.nz /stories/HL0307/S00064.htm (3948 words)

	liquidtodd : diebold voting systems manual
		Selected highlights from the Diebold Elections Systems " Election Support Guide" - the instruction manual for staff attending elections in the United States - follow.
		Principally Diebold Elections Systems - as documented in the stories above - has shown a clear intention to distribute an election software system that is 1.) easily hackable, and 2.) which they have known for at least 10 years is easily hackable.
		In addition there is an extensive description below of how results from county election results are often transmitted to election supervisors offices over telephone lines.
	www.liquidtodd.com /news/newsandviews/blackboxvoting.html (1107 words)

	Black Box Voting - Welcome to www.BlackBoxVoting.org, Consumer protection for elections
		Due to concerns about the legality of a voting system used in 32 Virginia counties, reports of procedural problems, and the inability of Virginia citizens to authenticate the accuracy of the vote count, Black Box Voting will be stepping up scrutiny of elections in all Virginia jurisdictions.
		Allegations that the WinVote system manufactured by Advanced Voting Solutions is using uncertified software are being looked into, and Black Box Voting will be working with local citizens on hundreds of public records requests to obtain critical voting system computer logs and other records, both in WinVote counties and in areas using other systems.
		Remember when a single ballot box was missing in Florida in the 2000 election? Everyone was going crazy, but now, you have dozens and dozens of these memory cards, cartridges, and "PEBs" -- all are small digital ballots boxes -- they are going missing. Very troubling. Watch for i... More
	www.blackboxvoting.org (2373 words)

	Diebold Election Systems multiple vulnerabilities
		Diebold Election Systems AccuVote-TS and GEMS may contain vulnerabilities that could result in a compromise of data integrity.
		The vulnerabilities are reportedly due to the way election data is stored and transmitted.
		Ensure that proper access controls are in place to prevent unauthorized access to the system.
	www3.ca.com /securityadvisor/vulninfo/vuln.aspx?ID=24304 (75 words)

	Diebold, Incorporated \| ATM Marketplace
		As global leaders in financial self-service, security and facility management, Diebold can support your operation today — and into the future.
		At Diebold, our team is committed to helping each customer succeed.
		Please contact your Diebold representative, visit www.diebold.com or call 1.800.806.6827.
	www.atmmarketplace.com /storefronts.php?sf_id=47 (430 words)

	Judge Hears Challenge to Diebold Election Systems Selection in NC @ Blogcritics.org
		North Carolina's State Elections Board has approved Diebold Election Systems, Election Systems & Software and Sequoia Voting Systems for purchase by the state's 100 counties.
		Although Diebold refused to turn over the source code for its Windows-based product, NC's state elections board — which employs a consultant who happens to be a former Diebold employee — approved the software anyway.
		This statute was enacted to require election officials to investigate the quality and security of voting systems before approval, and only approve those that are safe and secure.
	blogcritics.org /archives/2005/12/15/050917.php (839 words)

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