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Diebold Admits Ohio Machines May Lose Votes
I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "Premier Election Solutions (a subsidiary of Diebold) has acknowledged a flaw that causes the systems to lose votes. It cannot be patched before the election and the machines are used in half of Ohio's counties, but they are issuing guidelines for avoiding the problem that presumably contain a work-around. While Diebold initially blamed anti-virus software for the glitch, they have now discovered that the bug was their own fault for not recording votes to memory when the cards are uploaded in 'certain circumstances' — something their initial analysis missed. It would be nice to hope that Ohio poll workers would be tech-savvy enough to make this a non-issue, but they had poll worker shortages last year and might need tech-savvy people to volunteer."
Get over it folks! It will only drop votes for Democrats. So clearly this is an isolated bug.
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Turns out Diebold accidentally leaked a snippet of their C# source code that shows the conditions that the machines may fail to register votes:
if(vote.Party == "Democrat" && democratvotes % 3)
democratvotes++;
Oopsie!
I'm a big tall mofo.
Don't blame me, I voted for a';DROP TABLE users; SELECT * FROM data WHERE name LIKE '%.
Ohio already had its chance to be Florida back in 2004. Those two states need to stop hogging the spotlight and let a lesser-known state be Florida for once. I nominate New Mexico.
Want to really help? "Accidentally" run over the crate of voting machines, or allow it to fall off a bridge into a deep river. Do democracy a favor and destroy these abominations, you tech-savvy butterfingers!
Ahem... before the election.
Oh, say does that Star-Spangled Banner entwine / The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus's vine?
Only on Slashdot would you not only get a joke written in C#, but also multiple replies complaining that it's not technically sound.
I thought they had staff dedicated to this, like the CEO.
When the axe came to the forest, the trees said, "Look out - the handle was once one of us."
That was one of the links in the summary....
In the what?
http://www.mhall119.com
Obviously they extend copyright 4 more years.
I'm disabling ads until because I choose not to reward redesigns that are less usable than "view source".
While Diebold initially blamed anti-virus software for the glitch, they have now discovered that the bug was their own fault for not recording votes to memory when the cards are uploaded in 'certain circumstances'
"Certain circumstances" -- a.k.a "voting"
Please mod parent up.
Civil disobedience is where we need to be now, to prevent us bleeding-heart liberals from needing to learn how to care for small arms.
"All these years believing you're the signified monkey, only to find out you're just a big hunk of nobody cares."
On Slashdot C# is the joke.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Yeah, we just keep waiting, waiting for things to get worse. And they do. And nothing happens. So we wait longer- and things do get worse.. But it gets worse a little at a time, and we keep procastinating. We need to revolt before it's too late..
Believe me, I'm already revolting.
There's a 68.71% chance you're right.