Diebold Admits Flaw In Voting Software 281
NewYorkCountryLawyer writes "At a public hearing in California, Diebold's western region manager has admitted that the audit log system on current versions of Premier Election Solutions' (formerly Diebold's) electronic voting and tabulating systems — used in some 34 states across the nation — fails to record the wholesale deletion of ballots, even when ballots are deleted on the same day as an election. An election system's audit logs are meant to record all activity during the system's actual counting of ballots, so that later examiners may determine, with certainty, whether any fraudulent or mistaken activity had occurred during the count. Diebold's software fails to do that, as has recently been discovered by Election Integrity advocates in Humboldt County, CA, and then confirmed by the CA Secretary of State. The flaws, built into the system for more than a decade, are in serious violation of federal voting system certification standards."
Funny how they admit flaws (Score:5, Funny)
Re:and who's going to CARE? (Score:3, Funny)
The "them" will "do" what they can to steal an election here and there. And no refunds shall be due to you -- since of course you didn't get a receipt now, did ya?
Re:and who's going to CARE? (Score:5, Funny)
And I mean like "we want a refund"
Yeah! I want my eight years back!
Nader 2000
Re:Umm, duh? (Score:5, Funny)
Since paper voting -- given enough effort -- can also always be corrupted, we may as well go with the new, efficient tech. Where before people had to collude, hide, counterfeit or use some other elaborate scheme to throw an election, now all they have to do is:
DELETE * FROM VOTES WHERE CANDIDATE = 'OPPONENT';
Think of all the man-hours being saved.
Re:Funny how they admit flaws (Score:2, Funny)
What do you mean? They won.
Re:Umm, duh? (Score:3, Funny)
And then I could use my software backdoor to change the results and blame it on your processor.
MUAHAhahaha...hum
Re:and who's going to CARE? (Score:3, Funny)
Sure, you and I care, but who's the them that's going to DO anything?
I know, lets take a vote!....
ok, ok, everyone who wants to vote, open internet explorer and make sure that little padlock looking thing is showing...
Re:Umm, duh? (Score:1, Funny)
There might be job openings for you guys at this one company...
Re:Umm, duh? (Score:2, Funny)
And then I could give you a election observer that has a backdoor in him/her.
Kinky.
Re:Umm, duh? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:There is a lot of talk, and little action. (Score:5, Funny)
Most Slashdot readers, I'm guessing, would be fired for living with something so buggy.
Not me; I work for the government!