Report: Diebold Voting System Has "Delete" Button for Erasing Audit Logs

TruthOut, Wired by Kim Zetter | Mar. 3, 2009 (News Report)

the most startling information in the state's 13-page report is not why the system lost votes, which Wired.com previously covered in detail, but that some versions of Diebold's vote tabulation system, known as the Global Election Management System (Gems), include a button that allows someone to delete audit logs from the system. Full Story »

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The report shows defects in the ballot counting system both on the part of Diebold/Priemier and Ciber. The importance of the story is that it shows that our voting system and certification system is still flawed.

Public ballots should never be counted using secret proprietary software; the software must be open. Certification should not be outsourced to a private firm. Counting should never be conducted by a private firm.

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