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Security Expert: Diebold Voting Machines Designed To Be Hacked

Wednesday, 08 October 2008

Stephen Spoonamore is a registered Republican, leading cybersecurity expert, and a whistleblower. In early September he gave an explosive deposition on the means and methods by which the 2004 presidential election in Ohio was stolen, and identified specific individuals with first hand knowledge of who carried out these thefts.

Black Agenda Report here reprints his deposition, along with links to an extensive interview Spoonamore gave to questioners at Velvet Revolution in which he details how electronic voting machines not only can be hacked, but appear to have been designed to be hacked.

In this interview with Velvet Revolution back in 2006,cybersecurity expert Stephen Spoonamore details his objections to electronic voting, and explains howDiebold voting machines such as those used in Ohio and a number of other states, can be hacked.

The text of his deposition can be found below the videos.

Stephen Spoonamore interview
In the multipart interview (available at link), Spoonamore details his own qualifications, and his interest in electronic voting systems. Among other things, he explains the several ways that a Diebold voting machine can be hacked from a remote location.

Spoonamore continues explaining how the chain of custody of voting results can be easily hacked, and how electronic voting systems are capable of subtracting as well as adding votes. He reviews the "Georgia patch" which was used to flip the 2002 US Senate election in Georgia.

Spoonamore emphasizes the importance of clean elections in a democracy. "There is no electronic system in the world that cannot be hacked... Diebold is lying." "Diebold machines are brilliantly designed to steal elections..." "People do not want to believe that Americans would steal elections..."

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