{"id":4488,"date":"2008-08-30T06:21:25","date_gmt":"2008-08-30T05:21:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4488"},"modified":"2008-08-30T06:21:25","modified_gmt":"2008-08-30T05:21:25","slug":"diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/contributions\/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/\">Bruce Schneier<\/a> | Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/news\/2008\/082208-e-voting-vendor-programming-errors-caused.html\">has<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/08\/26\/decade_old_evoting_error\/\">finally<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2008\/08\/23\/diebold-comes-clean-admits-that-its-e-voting-machines-are-fault\/\">admitted<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/the-trail\/2008\/08\/21\/ohio_voting_machines_contained.html\">that<\/a> a ten-year-old error has caused votes to be dropped.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear if this error is random or systematic. If it&#8217;s random &#8212; a small percentage of all votes are dropped &#8212; then it is highly unlikely that this affected the outcome of any election. If it&#8217;s systematic &#8212; a small percentage of votes for a particular candidate are dropped &#8212; then it is much more problematic.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio is trying to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/election2008\/story\/48508.html\">sue<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is seeking to recover millions of dollars her state spent on the touch-screen machines and is urging the state legislature to require optical scanners statewide instead.In a lawsuit, Brunner charged on Aug. 6 that touch-screen machines made by the former Diebold Election Systems and bought by 11 Ohio counties &#8220;produce computer stoppages&#8221; or delays and are vulnerable to &#8220;hacking, tampering and other attacks.&#8221; In all, 44 Ohio counties spent $83 million in 2006 on Diebold&#8217;s touch screens.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In other news, election officials sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/thelede.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/08\/19\/mom-can-my-voting-machine-spend-the-night\/index.html?hp\">take voting machines home<\/a> for the night.<\/p>\n<p>My 2004 essay: &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.schneier.com\/crypto-gram-0411.html#1\">Why Election Technology is Hard<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Bruce Schneier | Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, has finally admitted that a ten-year-old error has caused votes to be dropped. It&#8217;s unclear if this error is random or systematic. If it&#8217;s random &#8212; a small percentage of all votes are dropped &#8212; then it is highly unlikely that this affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[91],"class_list":{"0":"post-4488","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-contributions","7":"category-sicence-technology","8":"tag-voting"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}