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."

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Re:So why did we move to electronic voting again?

[Lord Kano]

Why?

Because the Democrats sobbed like little bitches with skinned knees that the Butterfly Ballots used in Florida were too difficult to understand.

So, they got what they wanted. A voting process that was easier to understand but impossible to verify.

LK

Re:What's the problem again?

[grimJester]

Forgive if if I misunderstood, but shouldn't Linda Schade be happy that there's copies of the software available for public scrutiny instead of complaining about it?

You, sir, have completely misunderstood the concept of schadenfreude.

..groan...

If it can't be AUDITED, it didn't happen...

[mikelieman]

So, tell me again about how Bush "Won" ANYTHING?

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