Diebold Disks May Have Been For Testers

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."

Comments

Can't do much with these disks

[Anonymous Coward]

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

Re:Can't do much with these disks

[TubeSteak]

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 ;-)

Re:Can't do much with these disks

[Wellington Grey]

"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.

-Grey

Conspiracy theory

[sshore]

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

Re:New tag

[LordEd]

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

Can we borrow yours?

[Kadin2048]

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...

Proper tags

[Capsaicin]

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" ...