Chimp Hacks Diebold GEMS tabulator

Black Box Voting produced this film in Sept. 2004, teaching Baxter the chimp to delete entries in the Diebold audit log (without even a password). Yet in 2008, over 1,000 locations still used this tamper-friendly system. This is the real Diebold GEMS system, and a real Los Angeles vote database, which we ourselves altered as well to introduce "Dr. Evil." Baxter then deleted the Dr. Evil entries, to remove all traces of evidence that would show tampering of the Los Angeles election. You can download your own version of GEMS at BlackBoxVoting.org to try this yourself.

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[Nancy Bisset]

We have got to do something; I had not used a PC until about 2008; so I had no idea how they worked. BUT during election time I used to joke around that all some big-elite being needed was connection to the satellites and Whammo; zapp change the votes. Now that was more simple then the creative way these crooks have hoodwinked our voting system. These powerful crooks have got to be stopped. I smelled a rat but had no idea how to find where the stench was coming from. Bev Harris thanks. <3 U

[GotExitPolls2]

All this came out during the last election.

Has Bev Harris been facilitating the halt of the theft of our election system?

We cannot have computers only counting our ballots and need to have manual backups with volunteer counters and EXIT POLLS.

Lots and lots of independent EXIT POLLS.

(ie. NOT done by our corporate, war mongering media.)

[weneedhelp]

By default GEMS does not encrypt or password protect the database it creates which is a simple Microsoft Access database. From all of the videos I have seen, it does not appear that Diebold sends them out configured properly. It would not matter because even if they did config these things from the start, the default passwords would surely get out. It appears they let the end users set these things up(set up the election). Bad bad mojo.

[weneedhelp]

"anyone with \\computername\c$"

Anyone with the proper rights, eg any worker with that privilege, can access \\computername\c$. I have access to 6k machines that way. All it takes is the right person, in the right position, to have that access. Not very hard to do. In addition, I can boot any windows box to usb or cd and change the local admin password. My current boot disk boots in about 2 min, another 2 min to make changes, and I am in. Under 5 min.

[weneedhelp]

I got GEMS from an undisclosed website about a year ago. Not much skill required to manipulate data there. The GEMS database is not forced to be password protected. It is a simple Access database file that anyone with \\computername\c$ access can open. What a joke.

[skinnychef]

omg! that is the cutest and scariest thing i've seen today! i am not sure how to feel....

i love you, baxter the diebold hacking chimp!