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Ohio Audit Reveals More Diebold Problems
armb writes with a link to a Wired Blog entry about irregularities found in Diebold databases from the state of Ohio. The election in question here is November 2006, and the corruption of the entries may raise doubts about accurate tabulations. "Vote totals in two separate databases that should have been identical had different totals. Although Diebold explained that this was part of the system design for separate vote tables to get updated at different times during the tabulation process, the team questioned the wisdom of a design that creates non-identical vote totals. Tables in the database contained elements that were missing date and time stamps that would indicate when information was entered. Entries that did have date/time stamps showed a January 1, 1970 date. The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what occurs on an election night when results are uploaded and various servers are interacting with the database simultaneously."
> The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine.
Jet? Shit.
I'm gonna submit proposals to program up a new Mars Rover using Visual Basic!
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Arguing on Slashdot is like competing in the Special Olympics...
Is not!
You may win but you're still retarded.
I know you are, but what am I?
In the last episode, the capitol building collapsed - and now, the following letter appeared on the broken stairsteps to the Ohio capitol:
"We're sorry that the capitol building collapsed, but it ends up that we used Licoln Logs to build the dome, and it ends up that it collapses when the wind hits it from multiple directions at once.
We've gotten some complaints that we should have expected this, and were "total morons" for choosing such a design. We think this is a gross oversimplification, and more than a little unfair. We used multiple layers of high-quality chewing gum to secure the dome, which required countless hours of chewing, along with thousands of gallons of spittle. When you complain against such a massive effort, you insult the sore mouths of our hard working employees.
Sincerely,
Halliburton CEO
Bozo D. Clown"
Next episode: FEMA picks up the pieces.
Ryan Fenton
> Do you honestly think that no one ... cares about how electronic
...
> voting is implemented, and are only upset that a democrat wasn't
> elected in the last election?
Yes, next question.
BTW, when Bush came into office the solar system had nine planets
[Insert pithy quote here]
That's a bit like saying you can run a traffic light with a Lego Mindstorms on a massive intersection where 8 lanes of traffic intersects another 8 lanes, with both right and left turns allowed.
You just have to boost the 5v output using an op-amp, and secure the lead with a clamp or some electrical tape so it won't wiggle out.
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine
Why not just put a degaussing coil in all the door frames?
When Fascism comes to America, it will call itself Anti-Fascism, and tell you to give up your guns.
The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine.
As Hyneman would say..."There's your problem."