Why am I interested in this? Not only am I not from California, I am not even from the USA. Can't help it I am afraid.
University of Maryland have released a report indicating that the touch sensitive screen voting system, produced by Diebold, for use in the upcoming gubernatorial elections in California is "at high risk of compromise,". They found that "the Diebold software was badly written and full of serious security flaws,"
Alameda Registrar of Voters Brad Clark said "We don't care if the vote goes to the wrong person as long as it records the vote." Well, he didn't actually say that but he might as well have. My understanding of the word "democracy" is so much better now.
Read the University of Maryland report here.
Read a more detailed report at Wired News
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or read the most recent entries here.It gets really scary when you investigate where a lot of the R&D money is coming from. It would be very difficult to claim that Diebold is non-partisan.
Posted by: Jonathan at September 30, 2003 11:30 PM
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