Iowa SoS to Issue Voting SOSby Jerry Depew, Laurens, Iowa
Iowa Voters for Open and Transparent Elections
Secretary of State Chet Culver is about to issue an SOS (Save our Security) for Iowa’s voting machines. “Emergency” rules are to be published in early May—in time to plug security holes in the new equipment that will debut for the June primary election. Iowans for Voting Integrity obtained a copy of the rules last week.
The action is a tacit admission that Bev Harris and the other “conspiracy theorists” have been correct these last three years when they said computerized equipment offered new ways to steal elections.
The emergency rules govern the memory cards that carry the key programming and voting results. These cards are so small that any magician could hide several up his sleeve and swap them when no one is looking. An altered card could mean a stolen election. It already happened in a vivid demonstration in Florida last December, now known as the Hursti hack.
At first Iowa’s election director Sandy Steinbach shrugged off the Hursti caper, saying he had inside access to the equipment. Actually he had access similar to that of any poll worker, technician or courthouse employee. And since it is, after all, insiders who steal elections, Hursti revealed how it can be done in the future. He pulled the perfect crime, leaving not a trace of his activity.
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