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.'"

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Re:Diebold's bad, but officials also to blame

[kesuki]

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. "

Weird elections...

[zeux]

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...