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California Panel Recommends Dumping Diebold
sdw3u writes "Wired reports that a voting panel urged California officials to stop using a voting machine made by Diebold Election Systems, and recommends that the state consider filing civil and criminal charges against the company." There's also an AP story. We covered the hearing yesterday, with Diebold admitting that their machines had numerous problems.
Only took numerous voting irregularities and complete admission of guilt. Glad to see our swift democracy in action.
Did the voting panel use paper ballots or Diebold machines in their decision to dump Diebold?
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To more applause and laughter, one shareholder asked if Apple would put its innovation to work and make a voting machine for the state of California.
"We have no plans to do that," said a laughing Jobs. "Hopefully they won't base it on Windows when they do make one."
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The Halloween installment of This Modern World from 2003 mentions this frightening topic. In case anyone here didn't see it, here's the link.
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The five person voting panel voted 57 to 3.14 in favour of getting rid of the Diebold machines...
Would it be useful to have UN observers to ensure free and fair elections?
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We know that New York is going to go to Kerry, no matter what happens during the campaign. NY's liberal leaning is a foregone conclusion.
You don't think the Stonecutters would pay a lot of money to DDOS all the servers in NY?
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Because as Americans, it's our God-given, constitutional right to take a perfectly good, simple, working process, and fuck it up beyond recognition by application of successive layers of increasingly complex technology.