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

Wired by Kim Zetter | Dec. 9, 2008 (News Report)

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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by Gregory Kruse - Dec. 10, 2008

While it might be of great interest to those who distrust voting machine companies, especially Diebold, it doesn't deliver a story of much importance. The information is factual and the presentation fair, but the subject matter itself doesn't rise above the arcane and incidental. This is a good local story about good public servants that got amplified by the internet. I rated this work fairly low because of that, not because the writer didn't do an excellent job of writing and investigating.

I agree with one of the commentators on the site that it's puzzling that there should be ANY problems with a simple counting system enhanced with security. I believe that internet voting is the wave of the future, and security for voting online shouldn't be any harder than securing your online banking account or online credit card payments.