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Diebold Disks May Have Been For Testers

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the concientious-tester dept.

opencity writes "The Washington Post reports on the two Diebold source disks that were anonymously sent to a Maryland election official this past week. Further investigation has lead individuals involved to believe the disks came from a security check demanded by the Maryland legislature sometime in 2003." From the article: "Critics of electronic voting said the most recent incident in Maryland casts doubt on Lamone's claim that Maryland has the nation's most secure voting system. "There now may be numerous copies of the Diebold software floating around in unauthorized hands," said Linda Schade, co-founder of TrueVoteMD, which has pressed for a system that provides a verifiable paper record of each vote."

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  1. New tag by DittoBox · · Score: 3, Funny

    The new tagging system is cool. Diebold gets my "wretchedhiveofscumandvillainy" tag.

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    1. Re:New tag by LordEd · · Score: 5, Funny

      In other news, slashdot search queries for "wretchedhiveofscumandvillainy" increases dramatically.

  2. Can't do much with these disks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Can't play on ranked servers without a cd key and the gameplay itself is more boring than WoW. I'll stick with BF2.

    1. Re:Can't do much with these disks by TubeSteak · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now that's now fair.
      It's still great fun over the LAN!!

      Getting a bunch of friends together to suborn the vote is always a good time ;-)

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    2. Re:Can't do much with these disks by Wellington+Grey · · Score: 4, Funny
      "Don't ask why, that's just how it is." Imagine if you told your kids that.


      You've obviously never been a parent or a teacher.

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  3. Conspiracy theory by sshore · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps she's concerned about the give_election_to_highest_bidder() function being discovered..

    1. Re:Conspiracy theory by slughead · · Score: 3, Funny

      I changed the currency to Japenese yen and bought the '04 election for $100.

      Too bad the stupid spell checker changed 'Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracus' to "Bush" and we're stuck with this guy now.

      Sorry dudes, my B.

      -slug

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  4. Can we borrow yours? by Kadin2048 · · Score: 4, Funny

    I hope to the gods that Americans aren't backward enough to have only male options in parliament

    Actually, our options for Parliament are even more limited than that...

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  5. Proper tags by Capsaicin · · Score: 4, Funny

    Proper tags for this article may include "Diebold" "voting machines" "Maryland"

    Surely you can think of some more useful tags like "electoral fraud", "corruption," "cronyism" ...

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  6. Re:Just joking. by SeaFox · · Score: 3, Funny
    Although, if they did vote by email, imagine the junkmail vote....


    Cheap C!@lis for President!
    No money down m o r g a g e holds Senate majority!
    And plenty of HOT! NUDE! GIRLS! in Congress!

  7. Previous story tags: by cgenman · · Score: 3, Funny

    Let's see if you can tell where these are from:

    fud, no, yes, rms, notfud
    scam, slownewsday
    yay, spam, spamhaus, haha
    wikipedia, copyright
    fud, notfud, monopoly

    'glad to see the system is working well.

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