TOTAL INFORMATION ANALYSIS

Thursday, September 25, 2003

SAIC Report On MD. Diebold Voting Machines commissioned by the State of Maryland

This Risk Assessment has identified several high-risk vulnerabilities in the implementation of the managerial, operational, and technical controls for AccuVote-TS voting system. If these vulnerabilities are exploited, significant impact could occur on the accuracy, integrity, and availability of election results. In addition, successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could also damage the reputation and interests of the SBE and the LBEs. This Risk Assessment also identified numerous vulnerabilities with a risk rating of medium and low that may have an impact upon AccuVote-TS voting if exploited.

Associated Press and others report that Maryland has decided to use the machines anyway.

A quick check on the website of the leading critic of the fraudlent Diebold machines BlackBoxVoting.orgyields this notice:

Due to a dispute with Diebold, Incorporated, and its wholly owned subsidiary Diebold Election Systems, Inc. (collectively "Diebold"), which is claiming links to certain materials that do not reside on the blackboxvoting.org website constitute copyright infringement, blackboxvoting.org has been temporarily disabled.

We regret any inconvenience this may cause visitors and journalists to the blackboxvoting.org site and hope to have this matter resolved shortly.

In the interim, send questions or information requests to bev_blackboxvoting@yahoo.com.

The notice redirects to an associated vote-fraud research site. The dispute apparently rises over links to documents on foreign servers, a totally bogus pretext.

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