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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Philippe Habib
4.6
by Philippe Habib - Dec. 13, 2008

A lot of the articles about machine counting of votes report worries and concerns that computer science people have about the machines. This one reports in detail about an actual problem, how it occurs, and how it was identified. Excellent article!

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