I won a contest at ADP for this cartoon. It was printed in the production newsletter, and I received a $25 gift certificate. Click on it for a larger, readible version. Not all that funny, but didn’t offend or piss anyone off, so it worked.
Here’s another video, this time of Kat’s song “Down” which you can find on the album Head of Revelations.
See the video here: http://www.katdowns.com/down.php
Buy the album here: http://www.katdowns.com/buy.php
There’s a link on the buy page to the iTunes music store, so you can save some money if you have the inclination and the technology.
Back in May the band I play guitar for, The Kat Downs Conspiracy, recorded a set for Comcast’s cable TV show, “San Francisco Sound.” They gave us a DVD of rough footage and said we could use it for promotional purposes. I’m going to be posting about the process of getting this stuff on the web, but for now, enjoy the first one:
The article below should give you enough information to effectively tamper with voting machines. Here’s my suggestion:
1. Become a poll worker.
2. Take the voting machine home with you.
3. Tamper with the machine using the information below as a guide.
4. Place ALL votes in your precinct for PEDRO.
Reprinted with permission from http://www.blackboxvoting.org
Black Box Voting – Photos – Voting machine security seals penetrated
See photos below – a couple of 54-year old women from Black Box Voting bought $12 worth of tools and in four minutes penetrated the memory card seals, removed, replaced the memory card, and sealed it all up again without leaving a trace. This experiment shows that the seals do nothing whatever to protect against access by insiders after testing, and the seals also are worthless in jurisdictions like Washington, Florida, California, and many other locations where voting machines are sent home with poll workers for days before the election.
The Busby-Bilbray contest in San Diego now has proof that the optical scan machines sent home with poll workers subjected the tamper-friendly memory cards to an non-recoverable lapse in chain of custody. The recipe for tampering has been on the Internet for over a year: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/BBVreport.pdf
The photos below blow apart claims by elections officials that voting machine “sleepovers” — sending voting machines home with poll workers for days or weeks prior to elections — are secure because of seals over the memory card.
Two Black Box Voting studies in Leon County, Florida proved that election results can be altered in such a way that the supervisor of elections cannot detect the tampering. Not to worry, we were told by elections officials. The memory cards are sealed inside the machines.
But then Black Box Voting purchased an optical scan machine and obtained discarded voting machine seals from King County, Washington. Here’s what we found:
(photo)
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-door-inside-nut.jpg
The cover can be removed without detection by removing five screws. Inside, all that stands between a pollworker (or an insider at the warehouse or elections office) and the open-for-business memory card is a washer which you can unscrew.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-card-put-in.jpg
See the memory card: It is the item in the slot that says “this side up.” Diebold’s first line of defense is a metal door that pivots down over the memory card slot.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-door-in-out.jpg
See how the door works: The hole in the right side of the door is over-large, so you can move the right-side bolt in and out at will. Therefore, they seal the right-side bolt.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-card-door-hole-in-bolt.jpg
See the hole in the top of the right-side bolt: The plastic seal is threaded through that.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-sealed.jpg
See the plastic seal: This plastic seal was used by King County. It had been broken and discarded, so we used the high-tech method of putting an orange rubber band on it to hold it together for this demo. The seal is pointless anyway, as you’ll soon see.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-screws.jpg
See the screws holding the Diebold AccuVote optical scan machine together: There are five. We tried a Phillips-head screwdriver on the thing.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-unscrew-case.jpg
See the screws come out: What’s inside?
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-card-unfasten.jpg
See the left-side bolt. Can you remove it? We stuck a small Allen wrench into the bolt.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-door-inside-nut.jpg
See that nut on the screw: (Red arrow) We got out a pair of pliers.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-remove-memorycard-door.jpg
Is it possible that Diebold does not know this??? Grasp nut with pliers, twirl Allen wrench and see what happens.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-card-seal-cracked.jpg
See the bolt come off. But can you get the memory card out?
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-card-opened.jpg
See the metal door pivot to the right: Remove the memory card.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/accuvote-memory-card-out.jpg
We then put it all back together without leaving a trace. Cost for materials: $12. Time: 4 minutes to open, remove card, re-insert card and re-seal everything.
San Diego, June 6 2006: Sent these voting machines home with poll workers for sleepovers. They said the seal on the memory card bay made it secure.
STILL GOING HOME FOR SLEEPOVERS in King County, Washington: King County elections officials told citizens on Aug. 29 2006 in a videotaped statement that they are using the door and plastic tab seal as shown in these pictures, and they are sending the voting machines home with poll workers for the September primary election.
WHAT CAN YOU DO ABOUT IT:
Black Box Voting has prepared a Citizen’s Tool Kit — basically a brain dump of the things that worked during our last three years in the field. It is organized into modules, each only a few pages long, bullet points, easy to follow.
Two modules can help you address this issue in your area:
Media Module: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit-media.pdf
(tips to get this into the media in your location)
Adopt a public official module: http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit-adopt-an-official.pdf
(tips to educate, persuade, and hold public officials accountable)
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Full 20-Module Tool Kit is FREE: It is a Declaration of Independence for Citizens. You can download it here: (Adobe Acrobate 7 or higher recommended)
http://www.blackboxvoting.org/toolkit.pdf
- It’s time for you to recognize your own power.
- You don’t need us.
- You don’t have to find someone to follow.
- Pick any module. Pick a single action in it. See it to its completion.
- You’ve just opened the door to an unexpected evolution.
“Governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.” -– Declaration of Independence
That was the name of the band my college dorm-mate Joe Fraher was in. The band was called something else when he was in high school and penned such hits (in my own personal hit parade) as “Paralysis Pat” and “Ambulance Driver.”
They reformed briefly in college and renamed themselves “The Junior Executives,” possibly in order to wear 60′s suits when they played. The lead singer was an ROTC dude. Nice guy and really excited about the military, going on manuevers, military career, etc. which I couldn’t understand, having been in the Coast Guard reserve at the time and hating military life.
I found out what he’s up to now from reading my Santa Clara Alumni magazine:
“84 Col. Bart Howard relinquished command of the 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division (Big Red One) at Fort Riley, Kan., and was named chief of staff of Combined Forces in Kabul, Afghanistan.”
Come to think of it, they opened their shows with a song called “Control Force.” It’s all making sense now.
That Ain’t Punk Rock
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