Tuesday, November 04, 2003

and more Diebold potential electronic vote rigging news

Nov. 3, Calif. Halts E-Vote Certification:
The reason, Carrel said, was that his office had recently received "disconcerting information" that Diebold may have installed uncertified software on its touch-screen machines used in one county...

good article on the Diebold threat, from last month, giving examples - All the President's Votes? -
With academic studies showing the ... touchscreens to be poorly programmed, full of security holes and prone to tampering, and with thousands of similar machines from different companies being introduced at high speed across the country, computer voting may, in fact, be US democracy's own 21st-century nightmare...

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