Monday, September 15, 2008

Diebold Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes

Via Bruce Schneier's Cryptogram, Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes

"Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, has finally admitted that a ten-year-old error has caused votes to be dropped.

It's unclear if this error is random or systematic. If it's random -- a small percentage of all votes are dropped -- then it is highly unlikely that this affected the outcome of any election. If it's systematic -- a small percentage of votes for a particular candidate are dropped -- then it is much more problematic.

Ohio is trying to sue.

In other news, election officials sometimes take voting machines home for the night.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/26/...
http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/23/...
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/...
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/...

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/...
My 2004 essay on election technology:
http://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0411.html#1"

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