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By entering a 2-digit code in a hidden location, a second set of votes is created in the Diebold central tabulator, a program installed in 1,000 locations, which controls both paper ballots and touch-screens, each system handling up to a million votes at a time. Full story

After invoking the 2-digit trigger, this second set of votes can be changed so that it no longer matches the correct set of votes. The voting system will then read the totals from the bogus vote set.

It takes only seconds to change the votes, and to date not a single location in the U.S. has implemented security measures to fully mitigate the risks. It is not too late to do so, and the corrective measures are relatively simple.

This program is not "stupidity" or sloppiness. It was designed and tested over a series of a dozen version adjustments, and has been in place for four years. from

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Black Box Voting investigators have obtained copies of Diebold financial ledgers which show some unusual payments and receivables.

The most interesting item on the accounts payable ledger is to Georgia Lottery Services Inc., for approximately $144,000. (Will post document with exact amounts when we return from New York City).

Georgia Lottery Services appears to have nothing whatever to do with the Georgia Lottery. However, this company was listed in an article about pass-through payments (concerning payments to politicians routed through do-nothing corporations) in a 1995 investigation.

Current Georgia corporation documents show that the company was, and still is, owned by Lloyd Baccus, who also handles the medical contract for Fulton County Jails and was an NBA drug doctor.

An article in the Atlanta Constitution dated 11 Jan. 1995, Democratic chief got payment from firm with GTECH ties mentions Georgia Lottery Services, Inc. as "one of at least 16 companies in eight states that routinely receive "pass-through" payments from GTECH without performing any work, according to lawyers and witnesses. "

The article says that according to attorney Frank Haddad, "an Atlanta company, Lottery Services of Georgia, is one of several companies that receive pass-through payments without doing work.."

The article pertained to a Bowling Green, Ky. shell company that received $71,000 in brokerage fees from lottery giant GTECH Corp. which was subsequently investigated for making payoffs to Georgia Democratic Party Chairman Edgar Sims Jr.

Another interesting payment is a $2450 payment listed as a "sponsorship payment" to The Election Center, an enigmatic private company that trains elections officials. The Election Center is not a government entity, but has been perhaps the most powerful voice in America touting electronic voting systems. Diebold Elections Systems allocated $500 in June for the National Association of Secretaries of State.

Listed as a receivable is $1250 per month from the "District 8 Republican Committee," but the A.R. report does not specify which state or what the Republican Committee is paying Diebold Election Systems for.

Several large payables are designated for temporary employment agencies, and for suppliers like CardLogix and a supplier of bluetooth wireless apparatus. from