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Disclosed: Diebold/Premier’s Humboldt County Termination Letters

From Diebold to Zero in 90 Days

And there's nothing Humboldt can do about it...

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Parke Bostrom,
4/30/2009 -
4:32 pm PT

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Exclusive: Diebold ‘Nukes’ Humboldt County!

Terminates all contracts - including voter registration system - following California county's discovery, disclosure of major flaws in Diebold/Premier voting systems...

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Parke Bostrom,
3/25/2009 -
1:42 pm PT

16 Comments

Diebold Admits Audit Logs in ALL Versions of Their Software Fail to Record Ballot Deletions

Startling admission made during public hearing in CA to consider decertification of the company's voting and tabulation software...

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Mitch Trachtenberg,
3/17/2009 -
11:06 pm PT

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‘Daily Voting News’ For March 05, 2009

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John Gideon,
3/5/2009 -
4:31 pm PT

8 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For March 04, 2009

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John Gideon,
3/4/2009 -
4:23 pm PT

5 Comments

E-VOTE BOMBSHELL: Diebold Tabulator Drops Votes, Allows Undetectable Audit Log Deletion

New CA SoS report confirms findings of 'Humboldt Transparency Project,' discovers even more egregious failures in widely-used Diebold voting counting system

One of the citizens who designed the software, responsible for the startling discoveries, offers his thoughts...

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Mitch Trachtenberg,
3/4/2009 -
1:40 pm PT

16 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For March 03, 2009

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John Gideon,
3/3/2009 -
4:10 pm PT

1 Comment

EAC-Ya: The Nation’s Federal Voting System Oversight Commission Refuses to Do Its Job, Answer a Simple Question

Maddening chain of email, querying the status of the Diebold failure discovered in Humboldt County, CA, illustrates the EAC's continued protection of e-voting vendors, at the expense of the voters

ALSO: CA said likely to decertify the flawed Diebold system, while the EAC fails to take any action at all...

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John Gideon,
2/23/2009 -
12:13 pm PT

21 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For January 13, 2009

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John Gideon,
1/13/2009 -
4:10 pm PT

6 Comments

Out of the Frying Pan: CA County Dumps Diebold, Jumps to Similarly Flawed Private E-Vote System

After Finding Diebold's Tabulator Had Secretly Deleted Ballots from '08 Election, Humboldt's Election Chief Rushes to Buy New System From Different Vendor Without Adequate Public Discussion Period, According to Election Advocates

State-Commissioned Studies Find Hart InterCivic Ballot Scanners Vulnerable to 'Simple Attack', 'Malicious Alteration of Vote Totals'...

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Brad Friedman,
12/19/2008 -
1:05 pm PT

6 Comments

‘Daily Voting News’ For December 17, 2008

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John Gideon,
12/17/2008 -
4:30 pm PT

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More Details on Diebold’s Lost Ballots in CA

The Failures Discovered in Diebold's Tabulation System Are Even Worse Than Previously Reported...

...And Never Would Have Been Found Were it Not for the 'Humboldt Transparency Project'...

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Brad Friedman,
12/12/2008 -
1:17 pm PT

8 Comments

‘Humboldt Transparency Project’ Reveals Diebold, U.S. Federal E-Voting Scam

Hundreds of Lost Ballots, Illegal Voting System, and the Boondoggle Behind Billions of Federal Dollars Spent on Voting Machines That Don't Work All Illustrated by Simple Citizen Oversight, Free Open-Source Voting System in One California County...

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Brad Friedman,
12/8/2008 -
3:28 pm PT

15 Comments

Lost Votes on Diebold System Discovered by New ‘Transparency Project’ in CA

Humboldt County's First-of-Its-Kind Citizen Oversight Program Finds 197 Ballots Dropped, Miscounted by Voting System in One Precinct

Company Knew About Software Flaw, Failed to Notify County...

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John Gideon,
12/5/2008 -
5:21 am PT

19 Comments

Brad on Air with Humboldt County Elections Chief

Can't Speak to Security Vulnerabilities

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Brad Friedman,
3/25/2006 -
2:36 am PT

20 Comments

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Articles in Category: Humboldt County

From Diebold to Zero in 90 Days

And there's nothing Humboldt can do about it...

Terminates all contracts - including voter registration system - following California county's discovery, disclosure of major flaws in Diebold/Premier voting systems...

Startling admission made during public hearing in CA to consider decertification of the company's voting and tabulation software...

New CA SoS report confirms findings of 'Humboldt Transparency Project,' discovers even more egregious failures in widely-used Diebold voting counting system

One of the citizens who designed the software, responsible for the startling discoveries, offers his thoughts...

Maddening chain of email, querying the status of the Diebold failure discovered in Humboldt County, CA, illustrates the EAC's continued protection of e-voting vendors, at the expense of the voters

ALSO: CA said likely to decertify the flawed Diebold system, while the EAC fails to take any action at all...

After Finding Diebold's Tabulator Had Secretly Deleted Ballots from '08 Election, Humboldt's Election Chief Rushes to Buy New System From Different Vendor Without Adequate Public Discussion Period, According to Election Advocates

State-Commissioned Studies Find Hart InterCivic Ballot Scanners Vulnerable to 'Simple Attack', 'Malicious Alteration of Vote Totals'...

The Failures Discovered in Diebold's Tabulation System Are Even Worse Than Previously Reported...

...And Never Would Have Been Found Were it Not for the 'Humboldt Transparency Project'...

Hundreds of Lost Ballots, Illegal Voting System, and the Boondoggle Behind Billions of Federal Dollars Spent on Voting Machines That Don't Work All Illustrated by Simple Citizen Oversight, Free Open-Source Voting System in One California County...

Humboldt County's First-of-Its-Kind Citizen Oversight Program Finds 197 Ballots Dropped, Miscounted by Voting System in One Precinct

Company Knew About Software Flaw, Failed to Notify County...

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