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I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Premier Election Solutions (a subsidiary of Diebold) has acknowledged a flaw that causes the systems to lose votes. It cannot be patched before the election and the machines are used in half of Ohio's counties, but they are issuing guidelines for avoiding the problem that presumably contain a work-around. While Diebold initially blamed anti-virus software for the glitch, they have now discovered that the bug was their own fault for not recording votes to memory when the cards are uploaded in 'certain circumstances' — something their initial analysis missed. It would be nice to hope that Ohio poll workers would be tech-savvy enough to make this a non-issue, but they had poll worker shortages last year and might need tech-savvy people to volunteer." Read more of this story at Slashdot. ... Source: blogs.cjb.net --- 8 days ago
We have been asserting for years that Diebold (now Premier Elections Systems) makes voting machines that dont work, are unreliable and that have flipped elections. Just last week, Diebold was forced to admit that software in its machines has for a decade been dropping votes . These machines are being used in 34 states in the upcoming election. Two years ago, The Brad Blog broke the Pentagon Papers of E-Voting stories about the SAIC report on the vast problems with Diebold vote machines. In short, Diebold had issued a 40 page redacted version of the SAIC report which whitewashed the problems. Computer cyber security expert Stephen Spoonamore got a copy of the 197-page unredacted report which listed hundreds of serious problems, and he released that report to us. Well, Spoonamore did more than that he took the report to the Maryland Board of Elections and confronted them with it at a public meeting. He told them that if he were handed such a report in the private sector, he would shut down the system and open a fraud investigation. The elections officials expressed shock that they had not ever seen the same unredacted report. And when the meeting was over, Spoonamore, with a concealed microphone, personally confronted the officials. And what did one of them say to him that him having the report was a security risk. Following the confrontation, Spoonamore was contacted by law enforcement officials who demanded to know how he got ... Source: www.forbes.com --- 25 days ago
Cost cuts lead to better-than-expected Q2 and push stock near United Technologies' bid. ... Source: www.forbes.com --- 25 days ago
Accounting-challenged machinery maker beats Q2 estimates and gives hostile bidder United Technologies something to work with. ... Source: reddit.com --- 22 days ago
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Source: www.buckeyeplanet.com --- 23 days ago
Not sure if anything will come out of this ... Ohio sues e-voting company, can't ditch faulty machines (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080812-ohio-sues-e-voting-company-cant-ditch-faulty-machines.html) ... Source: www.fried.dynalias.net --- 21 days ago
Worth reproducing in full here (at least the text): "Wait. " 'Antivirus software'? On voting machines? You're doing it wrong. " "Why? Security is good, right?" "Of course, but, well - "Imagine you're at a parent-teacher conference and the teacher reassures you that he always wears a condom while teaching." "Ah. Strictly speaking, it's better than the alternative-" "-yet someone is clearly doing their job horribly wrong." If you're missing the point here, it's that voting machines should be so electronically hardened and physically tamper-proof that it is impossible for a virus to even become installed on them in the first place. In other words, they should be like ATMs, which coincidentally, Diebold also manufactures. That they're essentially windows PCs with one custom app on them and no other software or hardware protection means that they're no more "voting machines" than your laptop is. ... Source: syracuse.injuryboard.com --- 7 days ago
QUOTE A voting system used in 34 states contains a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point, the manufacturer acknowledges. The problem was identified after complaints from Ohio elections officials following the March primary there, but the logic error that is the root of the problem has been part of the software for 10 years, said Chris Riggall, a spokesman for Premier Election Solutions, formerly known as Diebold. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail..._contained.html ... Source: www.crainscleveland.com --- 26 days ago
The maker of ATMs and electronic voting equipment saw second-quarter earnings decline 5% despite a modest increase in sales. ... Source: www.newarkadvocate.com --- 25 days ago
HEBRON -- Diebold Inc., which employed more than 600 at the Newark Industrial Park a dozen years ago, will close its local factories in early 2009. ... Source: www.cantonrep.com --- 3 days ago
GREEN A federal judge has dismissed five shareholder lawsuits against Diebold and a number of current and former officers. The five lawsuits, filed in December 2005, alleged violations of federal secu... ... Source: www.crainscleveland.com --- 10 days ago
The maker of banking equipment has been chosen to provide Brazil's largest financial institution with more than 5,400 ATMs and check dispensers. ... Source: www.crainscleveland.com --- 4 days ago
A federal district court has granted the companys motion to dismiss five shareholder lawsuits that has been consolidated into a single proceeding. ... Source: forums.dailyrotten.com --- 14 days ago
Washington Post | Submitted by: squelch "A voting system used in 34 states contains a critical programming error that can cause votes to be dropped while being electronically transferred from memory cards to a central tallying point, the manufacturer acknowledges... The problem was identified after complaints from Ohio elections officials following the March primary there, but the logic error that is the root of the problem has been part of the software for 10 years." Discuss... ... Source: www.bradblog.com --- 15 days ago
Guest Blogged by Ellen Theisen of VotersUnite.org Many jurisdictions are realizing their voting systems are horribly flawed and they want to get them fixed before November. But the new systems currently under test by the EAC have so many defects that the manufacturers have to keep repairing them before testing can continue. Consequently the EAC has [...] ...
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Earlier this week, we wrote about Ohio's lawsuit against Premiere Elections Systems -- better known by its previous name, Diebold -- where we noted Premiere's claim that the problems were the fault of antivirus software. That didn't make much sense, as we noted, but Randall Munroe has explained just how ridiculous this is (in a way that only he can) with his latest xkcd comic : Permalink | Comments | Email This Story ...