Thief old, Incorporated (NYSE: DBD) is a manufacturer of safety systems, above all the sales, the production, installation and maintenance of self-service automats (like e.g. money automats), electronic and mechanical safety products (e.g. safe deposits and money counting automats), as well as software and integrated systems for global financial and restaurant markets. Thief old was created in the US Federal State Ohio in August 1876, the head office is in North CAN clay/tone, Ohio.

Thief old Election of system, a subsidiary company of thief old, manufacturer of electronic choice machines, manufactured many of the choice automats for the US president shank choice 2004. The management of this firm section is republican coined/shaped; and the CEO promised to help so that the voices of the State of Ohio at George W. Bush should go.

Internal notes of thief old, which turned out before the elections 2004 to the public, contained among other things instructions to the coworkers, who carry out in the polling stations for problems support. Quotation:

"DO emergency ton more offer damaging opinions OF our system, even when their failings become obvious."

"Deliver no the call of our devices damaging explanations; even if their problems obviously will should."

Thief old can be accused that their choice machines do not fulfill elementary safety requirements. First of all neither the US Government nor the public has access to the program code of the choice machines. Possible software-conditioned counting out errors thus cannot be clarified. Secondly the results of the thief old choice machines are put down via Internet on a server - servers, which usually consist of usual PCs and have no Firewalls. That it is possible, the text file with the candidate voices from an external computer to open and change - and this, without leaving traces - was demonstrated of the Aktivistin Bev Harris. It coined/shaped also the term Black box Voting - because nobody can be completely safe, what the machine with the vote makes. To this term: Black box (biology).

Choice automats of thief old will not expression for the delivered voices paper vouchers, and like that possible recounting of the voices is impossible. The number of votes, which the computer registered, is considered thus as definite. In the comparison to it the automats in Brazil for each individual casting of votes a voucher will expression, which is then put into a conventional Wahlurne.

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