Californian e-voting software deleted votes
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Doh!
Thursday, 5 March 2009, 13:16
CALIFORNIA'S Secretary of State, Debra Bowen has slammed e-voting technology used in November's presidential election after it deleted nearly 200 votes.
According to Bowen's report in a pdf here, the central software component of the voting systems developed and marketed by Diebold Election Systems, GEMS has a software error that "silently deletes all tallied votes from the first batch or "deck" of optical scan paper ballots after they have been scanned into GEMS."
Problems were caused by the fact that operators of e-voting machines were allowed to delete audit logs.
The machines failed to maintain required logs of important system events and generated inaccurate data and time stamps. µ
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Another sure fire way to stop the Democrats from getting Florida (Al Gore v Dubya).
I think you were confusing Jeb Bush with Jed Clampett. It's an easy enough mistake. Two hundred votes is a minuscule number considering the size of the population involved. I am flabbergasted that the number is so small. I would have expected it to be much higher than that. I wonder who Diebold upset enough that someone who actually matters would go public with criticism?
Believe it or not, there are some people in this country, and some politicians, who honestly believe that every vote is sacrosanct. Or is that every sperm is sacred? Hell, I always get those two confused.
The risk of this happening removes control from human hands, that's what the issue looks like. People don't like it, well mathematically the computers have their say so that no one man... may arm the missiles.
Look the cyber god is being prayed at: "1000101001001010010101110010101010"
Any accomplishments? Nop!
Democracy, they've heard of it.