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."

Comments

Re:Proud?

[thedonger]

I wish I could mod you flaimbait. No elections have been stolen. Don't you realize that every four years, and for a lot longer than you have been voting, millions of people vote for a candidate who loses? Who taught you that you have an inalienable right to get what you want all the time?

Make Diebold Pay to Replace Them

[Doc Ruby]

It cannot be patched before the election and the machines are used in half of Ohio's counties,

Of course they can be patched. If Diebold's Board of Directors' children were taken hostage until the patches tested OK, they'd be fixed by next week at the latest.

But I don't want it to come to that. I want Ohio to throw those rigged machines into the recycler, and get some machines that test good from a competitor. If it costs $10 BILLION to do it by Election Day, that's OK. Because Diebold should pay the entire bill. And then, if anything's left of Diebold after that, send its executives and directors all to jail. If they don't go quietly, then kidnap their children until they surrender.

These Diebold execs have stolen the future from most of America's children, and gotten paid a lot to do so. Let them fell the slap of a ton of steel in the face for a change.

Treason != Prison. Treason == Firing Squad.

[zooblethorpe]

send its executives and directors to jail.

I may be mistaken, but I was under the strong impression that such high crimes and misdemeanors as out-and-out treason were punishable by death in front of a firing squad.

I'm generally not a bloodthirsty person, but somehow I think this might be warranted here. Similar measures in Vietnam sure seem to have done a lot to discourage corruption among government officials.

Cheers,

Re:Open Voting

[dangitman]

Thomas Jefferson disagrees with you.

Interesting. I thought he was dead. Do you have a link to his blog or something?