(just sneaking in real quick b/c i saw a news story that just pissed me the hell off…i still won't be back until next week, or potentially the week following.)
courtesy of slashdot...
short version: the ohio secretary of state reviewed e-voting devices and found “critical security failures” (oo, big surprise) in all devices tested by diebold (now premier election systems), ES&S and hart intercivic. long version here.
commentary: this industry-wide incompetence is well past the point of being amusing and well into the realm of the insulting. these firms are treating ohio voters with naked contempt. i am reading the summary and of the three companies, hart refused to make available to the review team any unredacted internal reports at all, while ES&S and diebold (now premier) only did so very belatedly, well after the review teams would be able to act upon the information in those reports.
i see that diebold has renamed itself “premier election solutions”, perhaps in part to distance itself from the infamous comment by the diebold president weeks before the '04 presidential election in which he guaranteed a bush victory.
that most certainly is an insult to the election process, if nothing else.
and yet, i think i'm most troubled by the seeming apathy this engenders. that bewilders me. i don’t understand why the press appears to be largely ignoring the matter. i find that outrageous and to be honest, i think you should, too.
ed
silverwhisper posted on Dec 15, 2007
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vacantmind said on Dec 16, 2007....
Yea, this pisses me off as well. I mean how many other companies could get away with this level of incompetence? Its as easy as using a magnet to tamper with it. Seriously, you would think more thought would go into securing them than that. -
crybabylu said on Dec 18, 2007....
They are saying something similar about Colorado as well. -
biglove said on Dec 18, 2007....
This pissed me off too, but doesn't surprise me in the least. I know most people laugh at those of us that belive in the "conspiracy theories", but they are out there and we are just pieces in the big boy's game.Don't worry Ed, I haven't stopped taking my meds, I've always been paranoid ;-)) -
kelly said on Dec 18, 2007....
I would like to repeat that electronic voting is a bad idea. Bad, bad, bad. Paper ballots are susceptible to some tampering, electronic voting is susceptible to major tampering that is undetectable.As the phrase goes, the price of freedom is eternal vigilance. Stop it before it gets started. Don't put our very electoral process into the hands of the corporations who build these faulty devices. -
silverwhisper said on Dec 24, 2007....
vm: utterly appalling and in my mind, unconscionable.
dee: um...huh?
biglove: :D
kelly: i dunno, india has made it work....
ed
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