Colorado Decertifies E-voting Machines

mamer-retrogamer writes "On December 17, Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman decertified election equipment used by 64 Colorado counties, including machines made by Premier Election Solutions, formerly known as Diebold Election Systems. A report issued by the Secretary of State's office details a myriad of problems such as lack of password protection on the systems, controls that could give voters unauthorized access, and the absence of any way to track or detect security violations. Manufacturers have 30 days to appeal the decertification."

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skynet wants to vote

[User 956]

Colorado Decertifies E-voting Machines

Bad move. Everyone knows that lack of suffrage for machines is one of the catalysts of the machine uprising.

I love it.

[palegray.net]

Quote: formerly known as Diebold Election Systems . . . Funny how some companies change their name and expect to carry on their shady, underhanded, public-trust-violating business practices with few or no consequences. Wonder how often this happens in other industries related to government contracting.

Premier/Diebold decertified or not?

[N7DR]

I couldn't find a confirmation in TFA as to which companies really had machines decertified. Our local (Boulder) paper reported this morning that of the four companies involved, only Premier/Diebold had *no* certification revoked. So that's rather at odds with the summary. Seeing that I couldn't see any confirmation of the summary's statement in TFA, I suspect that the local paper got it right.

"appeal the decertification."

[Lookin4Trouble]

Manufacturers have 30 days to submit bribes to appeal the decertification.

Fixed for ya

Was this decision the result of a vote?

[Anonymous Coward]

The 64 Supervisors of Election voted yea or nea on decertification

The result was 79-4 for decertification, motion carried