California Bars a Firm's Voting Machines in November Election: "California will prohibit the use of 15,000 of voting machines from Diebold Inc. in the November election because of of security and reliability concerns, Secretary of State Kevin Shelley announced today.
Mr. Shelley also said that he was recommending that the state's attorney general look into possible civil and criminal charges against Diebold, and said that the company may have committed fraud in its dealings with the state.
... 'It is a good day for democracy,' said Aviel D. Rubin, a professor of computer science at Johns Hopkins University and a leading critic of the company's technology. 'Those machines are poorly designed and full of bugs and security flaws.' Michael Wertheimer, a former official of the National Security Agency who tested Diebold machines at the request of the state of Maryland and found that the election systems could be easily hacked by insiders or outsiders' "
Let this be the end of arguments that there are no problems with these machines. Now it's urgent to prevent fraud anywhere and everywhere they are used.
- posted by geoff @ #