(Didn't see a diary on this, so FYI here goes:)
Cheryl Kagan, a former Democratic member of the Maryland House of Delegates, found a basket on her doorstep last Wednesday, with a note that said Please give my baby a good home.
Well, not exactly. The delivery was made to her office at the Carl M. Freeman Foundation. And it wasn't a basket, it was a package.
A package containing three computer disks. Each with a different version of the Diebold source code for Maryland touch-screen voting machines.
(See you under the fold)
UPDATE:
Here's a link (cross fingers). Top story on the Baltimore Sun website today (I'm not savvy enough to do a link, but the site url is www.baltimoresun.com).
The source (pun intended) of the code may be the MD State Board of Elections, where the anonymous sender says s/he "picked it up"--or it may be out-of-state labs that tested the code. One of the 3 versions was used in the 2004 MD primary.
It appears to be later than anything previously making its way to the public (version 4.3.15c), but
Ross Goldstein, the state's deputy elections administrator, said Maryland now uses version 4.6 and that the public should be confident that their votes are secure.
The disks contain "nothing that's being used in this election," Goldstein said.
Oh, I feel muuuch more confident now...
(PS If this has been diaried before, let me know ASAP & I'll delete)