Press Conference: Hacking the Presidency ,...Anyone Can Do It...

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U.S. Newswire : Releases : " Press Conference: Hacking the Presidency A

Bipartisan Problem Anyone Can Do It... "

 

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News Advisory:

Wednesday, Sept. 22. Two press events: 9:30 am (National Press Club,

by invitation only; features a surprise and a three-hour head start

for TV news) and 12:30 pm EST (The Ballroom at Heldref Publications,

open to all journalists, policymakers, and to the public)

 

Startling demonstrations using real election software proving that any

teenager or terrorist with a laptop can create havoc with the election

results in November.

 

Or, more onerous: Anyone with an agenda or a profit motive can help

themselves to an election with subtlety such that no one will ever know.

 

1. 9:30 am, The National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington,

D.C., Zenger Room (A small gathering by invitation; if you are a

member of Congress or represent one of the networks, call

206-335-7747, 206-778-0524, 512-736-5802 or 512-775-3737 to get on the

invite list. Some contact lines congested, keep trying.)

 

2. 12:30pm, " The Ballroom " at Heldref Publications, 1319 Eighteenth

St. NW, Washington, D.C. -- (All press and policymakers; open to the

public)

 

Bev Harris, Executive Director, Black Box Voting --

http://www.BlackBoxVoting.ORG -- will demonstrate a hidden program for

vote manipulation, which resides on Diebold's election software. This

is a secret feature enabled by a two-digit trigger (not a " bug " or an

accidental oversight; it's there on purpose). The Diebold central

tabulator system election software will count 50 million votes,

approximately 50 percent of the votes in November's election.

 

Dr. Herbert H. Thompson, computer security expert and editor/author of

12 books including " The Mezonic Agenda: Hacking the Presidency "

Thompson will demonstrate how easily an election can be rigged by

implanting a virus.

 

Jeremiah Akin, independent computer programmer from Riverside, Calif.,

will demonstrate how to manipulate Sequoia Voting Systems software

while an election is in progress.

 

Andy Stephenson, Associate Director, Black Box Voting, will

demonstrate how an unscrupulous person with no computer skills

whatsoever can sabotage an election with two mouse clicks.

Surprise feature -- Highly visual TV demo, features something

astonishing. This 3 minutes will forever change your perspective on

voting security. Trust us on this one.

 

Two options will be presented as emergency solutions -- by Bev Harris

of Black Box Voting; and also by Sharona Merel and Joan Krawitz,

Co-founders of the National Ballot Integrity Project Task Force.

Inexpensive and doable emergency measures to immediately ensure the

integrity of the 2004 vote count, for immediate action. Lowell Finley,

attorney from Berkeley, Calif., specializing in election law, will

comment about the legal feasibililty of the emergency solutions being

presented.

 

 

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