Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Open Source Program Reveals Diebold Bug

Posted by timothy on from the rabble-rousin'-ne'er-do-well dept.

Mitch Trachtenberg writes "Ballot Browser, an open source Python program developed by Mitch Trachtenberg (yours truly) as part of the all-volunteer Humboldt County Election Transparency Project, was instrumental in revealing that Diebold counting software had dropped 197 ballots from Humboldt County, California's official election results. Despite a top-to-bottom review by the California Secretary of State's office, it appears that Diebold had not informed that office of the four-year-old bug. The Transparency Project has sites at humetp.org and http://www.humtp.com." Trachtenberg also points to his blog for the Transparency Project, and his own essay about the discovery and the process that led to it.

2 of 175 comments (clear)

  1. Mitch Trachtenberg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Any relation to Michelle Trachtenberg (Dawn from Buffy the Vampire Slayer)?

  2. Hey Mitch by danwesnor · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hey, Mitch, your sister's hot, have her call me, mkay?