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Diebold's Election Data Off-limits

Posted by Zonk on from the who-needs-checks-and-balances dept.

tommcb writes "The State of Alaska Division of Elections has denied a request by the Alaska Democratic Party for the raw file format used to tabulate voting results by citing that the data is in a proprietary format that is owned by Diebold. The ADP says 'The official vote results from the last general election are riddled with discrepancies and impossible for the public to make sense of'. The article contains some good quotes from Jim March of Black Box Voting: 'Copies of these kinds of files have been sitting on the Internet for over two years, with Diebold's knowledge.'"

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  1. What is so proprietary by Marxist+Hacker+42 · · Score: 4, Funny

    About a 3 table schema in MS Access?!?!?!? It's not like competitors would *bother* to duplicate it...

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    1. Re:What is so proprietary by Otter+Escaping+North · · Score: 5, Funny
      What ever happened to free and OPEN elections?

      It was found to be in violation of various patents, not to mention an infringement of the DMCA.

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    2. Re:What is so proprietary by HTTP+Error+403+403.9 · · Score: 5, Funny
      I can see a reason for 2 tables (Voter, Vote), but why would you need 3?
      Voter

      Vote

      Adjusted Vote.

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  2. But if the data had porno website searches in it by Jim+in+Buffalo · · Score: 5, Funny

    If that data had porno website searches in it, you'd have the White House asking for it.

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  3. Re:Diebold nonsense by pestie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Meanwhile here in Canada yet another election has been conducted without any problem using simple paper ballots.

    Well, assuming you can consider a win by the Conservatives as being "without any problem."