<http://www.VelvetRevolution.us#110808>11/8/08:
Top MD Election Official Rips Off Microphone When Asked About Diebold Voting Machines VR has obtained an unaired major TV interview with Maryland's top election official, Linda Lamone, in the weeks prior to the 2006 election. This is a must-see video. The dogged reporter who conducted the interview tried valiantly to get candid answers from Lamone (Administrator of Maryland's State Board of Elections and President of the National Association of State Election Directors) regarding the security and accuracy of the Diebold paperless touchscreen machines used in Maryland. Lamone, in response, said that respected computer expert Avi Rubin had done more than anyone to undermine confidence in electronic voting, that the reporter was living in a "fantasy-land" to believe that voting machines are insecure, and that source code used in the voting machines is "not relevant." <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyWVB9RmwpE>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyWVB9RmwpE Finally, rather than answer further questions, Lamone ripped off the microphone and stalked out of the interview. So much for transparency! There is an interesting postscript to this interview. Despite the rabid opposition of Lamone, Maryland last year passed legislation outlawing paperless voting machines starting in 2010. Supporters of this new law argued that Lamone had no credibility since she was the person who helped cover-up and sanitize the SAIC report about the Maryland DRE machines. That report, leaked to VR in October 2006, <http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3719>http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3719, showed that the machines had hundreds of major vulnerabilities that could be exploited to compromise an election. Here is our video about that report: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8EeaFyY4y4> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8EeaFyY4y4 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Mark Crispin Miller's "News From Underground" newsgroup. To unsubscribe, send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OR go to http://groups.google.com/group/newsfromunderground and click on the "Unsubscribe or change membership" link in the yellow bar at the top of the page, then click the "Unsubscribe" button on the next page. For more News From Underground, visit http://markcrispinmiller.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
