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Ex-delegate says FBI contacted her about disks she received.
By Cameron W. Barr
The Washington Post
Friday 20 October 2006
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The FBI is investigating the possible theft of software developed by the nation's leading maker of electronic voting
equipment, said a former Maryland legislator who this week received three computer disks that apparently contain key
portions of programs created by Diebold Election Systems.
Cheryl C. Kagan, a former Democratic delegate who has long questioned the security of electronic voting systems, said
the disks were delivered anonymously to her office in Olney on Tuesday and that the FBI contacted her yesterday. The
package contained an unsigned letter critical of Maryland State Board of Elections Administrator Linda H. Lamone that
said the disks were "right from SBE" and had been "accidentally picked up."
Lamone's deputy, Ross Goldstein, said "they were not our disks," but he acknowledged that the software was used in
Maryland in the 2004 elections. Diebold said in a statement last night that it had never created or received the disks.
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Three years ago, Diebold was embarrassed when an activist obtained some of its confidential software by searching the
Internet. The company vowed to improve its security procedures to prevent another lapse.
The release of such software poses a risk, computer scientists say, because it could allow someone to discover security
vulnerabilities or to write a virus that could be used to manipulate election results.
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