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Maryland Votes To Ban Diebold Voting Machines

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the now-maybe-they'll-have-real-votes dept.

vandon writes "Computerworld.com reports: 'The state Maryland House of Delegates this week voted 137-0 to approve a bill prohibiting election officials from using AccuVote-TSx touch-screen systems in 2006 primary and general elections. The legislation calls for the state to lease paper-based optical-scan systems for this year's votes. State Delegate Anne Healey estimated the leasing cost at $12.5 million to $16 million for the two elections.'"

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  1. Couldn't hack it by dotslashdot · · Score: 5, Funny

    I guess they couldn't hack it.

  2. Oops... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unfortunately, they voted using a Diebold machine, so it doesn't matter anyway.

  3. Soon To Be Followed By... by ackthpt · · Score: 3, Funny
    Soon to be followed by the age-old, tried and true method of picking leaders
    Eeny meeny miney moe,
    Catch a tiger by his toe,
    If he hollers,
    Let him go,
    Eeny meeny miney moe
    this of course is of great relief to many mothers hanging out clothes
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  4. Re:Voted? by martinultima · · Score: 3, Funny

    Allow Diebold voting machines? [ Yes ] [ Yes ] [ Yes ]

    (later) "...well, what do you know, due to a horrible software misconfiguration everyone's voted against the machines!"

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  5. Re:Voted? by Kjella · · Score: 4, Funny

    The big question is, did they use Diebold machines to count the votes? *ducks*

    Well, if they did I'd call it a new world record in incompetence when it comes to vote tampering...

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  6. In related news... by Slipgrid · · Score: 5, Funny

    In related news, it seems that Diebold has since started a new ad campaign.

    In more related news, stock of the Harland Company, parent company of Scantron, got a small bump today.

  7. In related news... by k4_pacific · · Score: 5, Funny

    In other news Diebold announced today the introduction of the AccuVote-TSx-2 touch-screen voting system. The new system boasts the same features and functionality of the AccuVote-TSx, however, it has a different name to comply with a recently enacted law in the state of Maryland.

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  8. Re:FYI by Millenniumman · · Score: 3, Funny

    This is further proof that Republicans are intolerant. They obviously think that people shouldn't be allowed to vote, just because they are dead.

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  9. Re:Hope it doesn't rain.... by capecodcarl · · Score: 2, Funny
    Being open source, it is available to the US, if you could get around the NIH syndrome.

    Knowing my fellow Americans we'd buy some expensive Diebold voting machines that ran a stripped down version of Microsoft Windows XP on them with some horribly clunky ASP.net based website and IIS running on each machine. Each machine would cost about $10,000 a piece and require a team of software programmers to update each one before an election to load the new candidate data on it.