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[[Bob Urosevich]], the first CEO of Diebold Election Systems was also the founder of [[ES&S]], a competing voting machine company now owned by the [[McCarthy Group]]. Together these two companies are responsible for tallying around 80% of votes cast in the United States. The current vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
It is reputed that the software architecture common to both is a creation of Mr Urosevich's company [[I-Mark]] and is easily compromised, in part due to its reliance on Microsoft Access databases; and that the I-Mark and Microsoft software each represent a single point of failure of vote counting process, from which 80% of votes can be compromised via the exploit of a single line of code in either subsystem. This makes the temptation for [[electoral fraud]] profound and probably irresistible:
Diebold's new touch screen [[voting machine]]s have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters. This means that any such fraud would be impossible to catch.
For evidence of opportunity and evidence of method that the Diebold systems have been exploited to rig American elections in the recent past, see an expose of these systems (<u>free online version</u>) at [http://www.blackboxvoting.org/ Black Box Voting] by [[Bev Harris]]. Also see [http://www.prisonplanet.com/transcript_harris_091903.html transcript] of September 19, 2003, interview by Alex Jones with Bev Harris.
[[Walden O'Dell]] or 'Wally" O'Dell, the current chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its [[electoral vote]]s to the president next year." He was very active and visible as a Bush supporter:
On October 22, 2003, the two groups have decided to pursue different courses of action, confident that the actions of both groups will independently result in continued access to Diebold's memos. SCDC has decided to comply with any cease and desist requests and subsequently take legal action against Diebold[http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/org/daily/archive/fall_2003/20031023.html#n1]. Why War?, on the other hand, will continue to provide access to the memos by listing mirrors provided by individuals worldwide. [http://why-war.com/features/2003/10/diebold.html]
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