Ultimate Proof: E-voting Certification Actually LETHAL to Democracy

[Land Shark]

Point One: The "Hursti hack" on Diebold electronic voting machines, (subsequently confirmed by a formal study from California), shows that access to a single memory/results card from an election allows a person to easily change the overall election result *without leaving evidence*. No subsequent investigation by elections officials, if they ever did one, would catch this because there would be no evidence.

MEANING: THIS IS THE NEUTRON BOMB OF ELECTION FRAUD. A DOOMSDAY WEAPON AGAINST DEMOCRACY.

Point Two: Approximately thirty different states, "independent testing authorities" and federal officials PURPORTED to inspect the software of Diebold in which this flaw was found. They all "approved" it for use in their respective jurisdictions. All THIRTY (30) FAILED to find the DOOMSDAY WEAPON ON DEMOCRACY.

Point Three: If you think that certification has any credibility whatsoever, you got more problems in your head than I know how to deal with.

REQUEST: Can someone post a list of the "certification" guys that missed the doomsday weapon on democracy so that we can all write to them and THANK THEM for being intrepid Guardians and Defenders of Democracy? And for making fun of election protection activists? And for making themselves so superior that they look down on activists working their butts off to make a contribution to their country?

I've always said that certification was meaningless, kind of like getting a driver's license says nothing about whether or not one will be commit vehicular homicide tomorrow, much less have a lifetime of safe driving. But in this case, they issued the driver's license and told us all to 'pay no mind' to the guys behind the curtain of software secrecy, and behind that curtain of secrecy, indisputably in the case of Diebold, lies (sic) the doomsday weapon against democracy.

We should demand an explanation not as to why they missed this, but as to WHY WE SHOULD HAVE ANY CONFIDENCE WHATSOEVER IN THEIR "CERTIFICATIONS" AT ANY TIME NOW OR IN THE FUTURE GIVEN THAT THEY DIDN'T CATCH THIS???

IN THE FUTURE, HOW DO WE KNOW THEY'RE NOT BLOWING IT AGAIN? OR worse yet, lying to us when the either know or have reason to believe it's risky?

Now, when someone CERTIFIES something as safe and suitable for use in elections, and then it turns out to contain a doomsday weapon against democracy within it, what do we call that?

Fraud? Well, activists weren't fooled, though others were.

Just what do we call this?