Serious Error in Diebold Voting Software Caused Lost Ballots in California County

An investigation shows that the paper mail-in ballots were scanned properly by officials into the central-count optical-scan system made by Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold Election Systems) -- a receipt printed out by the machine at the time they were scanned on November 1, three days before the election, indicates that the machine recorded the ballots. The ballots even showed up in preliminary tallies counted on election night on November 4 ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
4.7
by Dwight Rousu - Dec. 10, 2008

Zetter provides a clear description of the discovery of the problem and an intuitively clear idea of the programming cause of the problem. Followup to some other regions using the Diebold/Premier software is also presented. Logs are shown not to be logs. There is, unfortunately, no indication if is being used in Minnesota.

The proprietary "secret" software being used to count public election results is a major travesty against open and honest elections. Software in balloting machines and vote counting systems must be open for public audit.

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