Officials Probing Possible Theft of Voting Software in Md.

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Officials Probing Possible Theft of Voting Software in Md.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/19/AR2006101901818.html>

By Cameron W. Barr
Washington Post Staff Writer
October 20, 2006

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.

The disks bear the logos of two testing companies that send such disks
to the Maryland board after using the software to conduct tests on
Diebold equipment. A Ciber Inc. spokeswoman said the disks had not come
from Ciber, and Wyle Laboratories Inc. said it was not missing any
disks.

Diebold spokesman Mark Radke and Goldstein said that the labels on the
disks referred to versions of the software that are no longer in use in
Maryland, although the Diebold statement said the version of one program
apparently stored on the disks is still in use in "a limited number of
jurisdictions" and is protected by encryption. The statement also said
the FBI is investigating the disks' chain of custody.
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