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- 03-11-06 Election Official Finds Security Holes (Miami Herald)
"Ion Sancho may be a hero in California, where grateful election officials have verified the ''serious security vulnerabilities'' in Diebold voting machines that the Leon County election supervisor uncovered last year."
"Sancho is regarded a little differently in Florida."
"Florida's secretary of state's office disparaged Sancho's finding, demonstrating considerably more interest in propping up vendors than protecting elections." 03-06
- 03-11-06 Election Official Finds Security Holes (Miami Herald)
"Ion Sancho may be a hero in California, where grateful election officials have verified the ''serious security vulnerabilities'' in Diebold voting machines that the Leon County election supervisor uncovered last year."
"Sancho is regarded a little differently in Florida."
"Florida's secretary of state's office disparaged Sancho's finding, demonstrating considerably more interest in propping up vendors than protecting elections." 03-06
- 04-25-06 Whistle Blower or Thief in Diebold Case? (Election Administration Research Center)
"Prosecutors say [Stephen] Heller, a 43-year-old actor and resident of Van Nuys, took more than 500 pages of Diebold-related documents, including memos from the company's attorneys at the Jones Day law firm. The memos suggested that the company might have broken state law by providing Alameda County with voting machines that had not been certified by the state." 04-06
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- -05-10-06 "Dangerous" Security Hole Found in Diebold Election Software (InsideBayArea.com)
"Elections officials in several states are scrambling to understand and limit the risk from a "dangerous" security hole found in Diebold Election Systems Inc.'s ATM-like touch-screen voting machines."
" 'This one is worse than any of the others I've seen. It's more fundamental,' said Douglas Jones, a University of Iowa computer scientist and veteran voting-system examiner for the state of Iowa.
" 'In the other ones, we've been arguing about the security of the locks on the front door," Jones said. "Now we find that there's no back door." 05-06
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