Oh Look: Even More Lost Votes By Diebold/Premier
from the counting-votes-is-soooo-hard dept
Following last week's revelation of votes lost in California thanks to Premier (better known as Diebold) and its voting equipment, The Register points us to even more votes lost by Premier/Diebold machines in Ohio. Again, it was only because of a special, rare, spot check, which isn't commonly done with these machines, that the lost votes were noticed. And, as usual, Diebold... er... Premier downplayed the discovery:"We have not seen this particular condition anywhere else in Ohio or anywhere else in the country."Is it really that difficult for the company to admit that it screwed up? For quite some time now, pretty much every investigation and every more detailed look at any kind of e-voting equipment have turned up similar failures. For the company to brush it off because it hasn't seen "this particular condition" anywhere else is ridiculous. It does make you wonder, though, why anyone would ever buy such equipment and use it in an actual election.
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Filed Under: e-voting, lost votes, ohio, voting
Companies: diebold, premier voting
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hmm... Looks like i've found my senior design project for next year.
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I'm at a loss to see how anyone can claim this is either a left or a right issue. Considering "the left" won the last election, how is this "fear mongering by the left"?
It seems like a pretty clear problem for anyone who actually likes real democracy.
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eh
Go look at how much coverage the senate is getting about Bush authorizing torture.
Guess how much? 0.
Whoops.
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Not to mention that the CIA eventually admitted to sending out the anthrax in the mail that happened a month later.
Nice to see people keeping their conspiracy theories alive and well, despite reality or how ridiculous it makes them look.
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[/not lib]
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hmmm
I thought only Republicans cheated in elections?
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