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Got any DEC Vax Cabinet Keys? (Diebold)

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It get’s better.

A writer at Dkos discovered that the key that locks the memory port access is the same lock used on DEC Vax computers of Maynard fame.

Having been a Vax systems manager, I probably had two or three of those keys at one point and I’ll bet a few are still hanging around in desk drawers (you might even be able to find some in the pond next to DEC’s old HQ in Maynard đŸ™‚

Should you come across any, I suggest you mail them to Chicken W. Galvin with a link to this Daily Kos Diary...

Mark

And a new advertising campaign for Diebold

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  1. Coincidentally, I am right now working on a post for johnbonifaz.com on how Bill Galvin is considering two touchscreen voting machines, including the Diebold AccuVote TSX, for Massachusetts.  He’s been “considering” those two, plus that Automark, all year, missing the federal deadline for complying the law on disability access (the deadline was January 1, 2006).

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    In the meantime, watch this video of Bonifaz answering a question about the Ohio recount, and talking about computer voting:

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    … and if there’s no opportunity to look inside these machines, to look at the data and the source code, then we’re at a loss.  … there was no way to do a recount in those counties [that used computer voting], even if we didn’t have the resistance that we faced from elections officials, because the only thing they could do was just punch the button again and get the same tally … it was really absurd.

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    Bonifaz has said on many occasions that he wouldn’t consider Diebold, because their software is proprietary & secret, and because they don’t allow the public to fully own the machines and the data.

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