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Diebold's Election Data Off-limits
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.'"
Obligitory quote:
"Let me put it this way, Mr. Amor. The 9000 series is the most reliable computer ever made. No 9000 computer has ever made a mistake or distorted information. We are all, by any practical definition of the words, foolproof and incapable of error. "
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
if you think Australian elections can't be rigged, you're pretty naive.
Given enough resources, anything can (and likely will) be rigged.
"I have as much authority as the pope, I just
don't have as many people who believe it" - George Carlin
The last US presidential elections were a joke. At least that's how many people saw it in my country.
There were so many 'problems' with e-voting (no paper trails, machines starting with 5000 votes already in memory, malfunctions, etc) that it was not even funny.
In my country, if there were ANY doubt, even on ONE ballot, we would restart the whole electing process, no questions asked.
I don't understand why you americans didn't do anything when all this 'bugs' appeared...
Iraq: war to save the U
Democratic underground is a shill site for Dems who are too cowardly to defend our fundamental right to have ALL our votes counted just like Gore didn't have the guts to do. The Dems are so afraid of rocking the boat that they are willing to throw the passengers over board to keep the boat stable. Note it was the Libertarians and Greens that challenged the suspicious vote results in Ohio (far different from initial polling) on behalf of the lame ass Dems who couldn't be bothered to defend themselves even over their own loss. And people wonder why I'm DISGUSTED at BOTH the Dems and Repigagains and their toady followers like democratic "underground."
Tired of all the isms, don't exploit people as an employer, or a government, mmmmK?
I don't see a Conservative victory as a good or bad thing. All parties suck...that's a given.
What I like about this result is that the corrupt, arrogant, conniving Liberals got their ass handed to them on a platter. I would have been quite happy for it to go even further than it did, though. The Libs could have lost another 50 seats, with it split between the Conservatives and the NDP, and I would have been happier.
That actually brings up a good point about the party system. It sucks. I like some policies of the Conservatives, and some of the NDP. Pretty much polar opposites, but that's what I like. If they can actually settle down and get to work, there might be some good things come out of this government. Provided the NDP say to the Conservatives "We'll give you our support for this bill, provided you add X into this other bill." or, "We'll support this, but only if you do Y to it."
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
There were repeated requests for basic information, but the King Co. elections department (run by D's) either didn't provide the information or covered it up or even openly lied about it, all this while an important trial is being held to uncover who was really elected. Based on admissions by the elections department, they manufactured votes and counted votes that should not have been counted.
And the bottom line out of that trial is that there was no evidence of fraud with the only consequence being the removal of four illegal votes for Rossi. There was a reason the GOP went with that porportionality nonsense: they knew full well that if they started putting (more) felons on the stand, they'd lose a ton of votes. The felons lists were overwhelmingly male and men voted overwhelmingly for Rossi.
Hundreds of felons fraudulently voted for Rossi yet it's Gregoire who "stole the election"? Give me a break.
You can do better for elections information than Sound Politics. Sharkansky is talking out of his ass most of the time. No one who actually knows the subject matter takes him seriously.