by Joshua Mccracken

Created on: July 30, 2008

If numerous sources from around the country are to be believed, Ohio may have much more pull in our upcoming presidential election than anyone could have imagined. An Ohio based company, Diebold Incorporated, seems to have the monopoly on voting machines being used for elections in states around the country and more importantly, the presidential elections. Diebold's seemingly iron-clad grasp of the voting machine market is a great cause for concern for many.

Allegations of voter fraud have arisen all over the country, many of which suggest that the company has been abusing the system by manipulating votes for state and presidential elections. Even more disconcerting is the fact that new allegations have continued to surface for years and the Justice Department has failed to act on them.

On July 18th 2008, the Raw Story ran a piece announcing that new evidence of tampering has been uncovered by Stephen Spoonamore, founder and former CEO of Cybrinth LLC. Spoonamore is one of the most respected cyber-security experts in the country.

The fresh tampering evidence concerns voting machines utilized in the 2002 senatorial elections in none other than Dekalb and Fulton counties, right here in Georgia.
One would think that more allegations of corruption at Diebold, Inc. would have garnered national media attention - particularly when Spoonamore has come forward. In Columbus, OH, Spoonamore recently held a press conference presenting evidence of these allegations to the public. Amazingly, the conference seems to have gone largely unnoticed by the mainstream media and the vast majority of the public remains unaware of the situation.

The evidence submitted to Spoonamore was sent by an anonymous whistleblower who became suspicious of patches installed on Diebold machines in November of 2002. Suspicions stemmed from two irregularities regarding the fashion in which the patches were installed. Firstly, Diebold CEO Bob Urosevich flew personally from Texas to install the patches in only two counties - Dekalb and Fulton - both of which are largely democratic. Secondly, the patches were meant to fix a problem with the clocks on the aforementioned machines, according to what Diebold employees and the Georgia Secretary General's Office were told - an objective which they failed to accomplish.

A copy of Diebold's special "patch" was submitted to Spoonamore, who became even more suspicious when upon closer examination the programs behaved in a fashion that is inconsistent with the purpose

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