They knew and hid it

BradBlog:
EXCLUSIVE: LEAKED 2003 REPORT ON MARYLAND'S DIEBOLD VOTING SYSTEMS REVEALS SERIOUS SECURITY CONCERNS WERE WITHHELD FROM ELECTION BOARD, GOVERNOR, PUBLIC!

In September, 2003 Linda Lamone, the Administrator of Maryland's State Board of Elections and President of the National Association of State Election Directors (NASED) hands over a critical study on the security of the Diebold Election Systems machines that count all of Maryland's votes....
...The original SAIC report, coming in at nearly 200 pages, was reduced, redacted and altered such that the only version the public — or even state officials including the Governor and the full State Board of Elections — would ever be allowed to see was a wholly sanitized 38-page version of the report.

Until now.

For the first time, we've been able to review the complete, much sought-after, unredacted version of the SAIC report which has been kept at bay from Maryland state officials…as well as the computer science and security community…as well as the election integrity community and public at large since it was originally completed in 2003.

Read the whole thing:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3719#more-3719

And the award for the scariest comment?

You want a nightmare scenario then how about this.

Diebold and the Repubs know that throwing the elections to Republicans will almost certainly result in a call for their collective heads, especially since democrats are favored by huge margins in so many races. So how do you hold onto congressional seats you are certain to lose?

YOU THROW THE VOTE GROSSLY IN FAVOR OF DEMOCRATS so that it's undeniable that the machines have been hacked. This has several advantages for Diebold and the Repubs.

–It results in a freeze on the election results that allows all the current memebers of congress to retain there seat until the issue is worked out. This could take months or years which is plenty of time for them to allow Bush to get us in more trouble.

–It creates doubt that Diebold is anything other than a Republican vote making system and makes Diebold look more like a victim than the fascist asses they really are.

–To simpleminded, stupid and naive Americans (of which there are tens of millions)It makes the democratic party look like shit.

Am I paranoid? You bet I am. After living with Bush and Rove for six years I wouldn't put ANYTHING by these guys because they will do ANYTHING to win.

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Halloween Horror in San Diego not overwith yet:

Photocopies mailed; registrar says all votes will be counted
By Leslie Wolf Branscomb
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER
November 3, 2006

If you got your absentee ballot in the mail and it looks suspiciously like a photocopy of a regular ballot, that's because, well, it is...

What IS is with this county?

Three million people live here and its run like some podunk, rednecked little backwater.

Just askin.

Update: I get the feeling that because of the registration (party affiliation) numbers that the 50th has already been written off.
I looked at the registration numbers.
Not so fast. Have a look see:
dem 105,548
rep 156,629
aip 7,834
grn 2,358
lib 2,235
nlp 639
p& f 592
misc 1,760
decl 78,915 (decline to state)
Qualified Political parties
from April to September there were 2,644 new registered voters in the 50th. I don't know what party.