Well it goes beyond just not being secure. There are several issues involved.
Among others they have been found to be not functioning, have needed to be
fixed during an election, have had fixes applied and not had the fixes
certified by
the local elections board, have taken out machines during voting and applied
patches
at Diebold company locations, there is no paper trail. There are also
indications
that some election results are either invalid, recorded improperly, or have
been erased
by people both in the election board and in Diebold employees. There was even
one
machine that recorded a *negative* vote of something like 2000 for(against?)
Gore in
Florida in the 2000 election. I've seen lots of different types of voting
methods
in my 25 years of voting, but I've never seen an option to vote against one
candidate.
How does one cast a negative vote? Oh yeah and the CEO of Diebold is quite proud of
saying he will deliver elections to Republican candidates. IIRC
Sorry for the rant, I guess someone pushed a button. ;)
From automobiles to voting machines, a worthy OT rant. While mildly
amused with the thought that the folks who brought the world the BSOD
and other "crashes" could have their product creep into our automobiles,
the electronic voting issue has had my more serious attention lately.
While looking at a few of the Slashdot references, I found this
initiative in the open-source community:
http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2754
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