3 month ago
nelson : Diebold counts most of your votes - Voting machine glitch, coverup, etc
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9 month ago
plasticbag : The Onion has the US election result! - Wonderful piece of satire that's in fact so wonderful it's barely funny at all. I should introduce this to the Open Rights Group people.
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21 month ago
Rod Begbie : Voting device pact at issue - The Boston Globe - Diebold is suing the Commonwealth of Massachusetts because it chose a competing firm's voting machines. "Weisberg said the company is not alleging any improprieties by the secretary of state's office. Instead, it is saying the office acted in good faith [via] #
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23 month ago
deusx : MAKE: Blog: Homemade key opens up every voting machine - "Interesting, it seems when you make a master key for voting machines it's not a good idea to put a photo of the key that's good enough to make a physical copy of..."
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25 month ago
Rod Begbie : Primary and early e-voting problems point to gathering storm - Could this year's election result in a hanging-chad-like farrago which convinces the general public that electronic-voting-without-paper-trail is A Bad Thing? I don't know whether I should hope it does or doesn't happen. [via] #
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31 month ago
deusx : Unfogged - "Lock The Vault? What Kind Of Maniac Would Steal Money From A Bank?" - "For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software," he said. "I don't believe these evil elections people exist."
jimray : The people who work for Diebold are idiots - "For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software," he said. "I don't believe these evil elections people exist."
Simon Willison : "Lock The Vault? What Kind Of Maniac Would Steal Money From A Bank?" - Voting machine company rep rules out possibility of corrupt election officials.
Rod Begbie : "Lock The Vault? What Kind Of Maniac Would Steal Money From A Bank?" - Diebold voting machines are found to be easily re-flashable by anyone wanting to invisibly rig an election. Diebold spokesman: "I don't believe these evil elections people exist." I have not the words. [via] #
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47 month ago
jimray : Diebold figures out how to hook up a printer to voting machines - Just three months after the election, too. Amazing.
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