Well, Diebold helped put Bush in the White House, as it's president has promised before 2000. Now with Bush unfairly not getting a third term, Diebold can admit that mistakes are possible. And possibly charging for the update/fix/new machine/whatever.

>> ^charliem:
Go back to paper ballots you fucking retards.

I'm going to have to disagree with this. The problem is not electronic voting, it's the implementation.

When the army wants a whistle, they submit a 12 page spec with technical drawings, and specifications on materials used etc, if the manufacturer fails to deliver exactly what is in the spec they are in breach of contract with the government and will never get another contract again.

When the gov hands out "kinda like this" corporate welfare funding like they did to diebold, then you get this kind of crap. The government knows how to get what they want at a good price, that was just not the point of the "help america vote act".

Let me be blunt. I could set up a sourceforge project to develop the software/hardware spec for an e-voting system, using existing free software, I could get help from volunteers, and we could have a secure, working system in a couple of months.

In fact anybody worth their salt at programming/crypto could have a proof of concept mocked up in python, or bash shell script by tomorrow.

These people failed for one of three reasons:

1) they are flagrantly incompetent. (their ATM products suggest otherwise)
2) they didn't even try. (seems plausible, just take free money and run)
3) they intentionally made the system weak to allow fraud. (unfortunately also plausible)

McCain will have his only rally called the "Diebold Machine Hackfest!"

We better run a software check on his Diebolds!
Congrats!

Yes, dupe: http://www.videosift.com/video/Diebold-Accidentally-Leaks-Results-Of-2008-Election-Early

*discard

How about making it a Diebold Day?

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Bank machines. Accurate down to the penny. Voting machines. Questionable accuracy.

Manufactured by whom? Both are manufactured by Diebold. That's who.

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... meanwhile, Diebold's plan B for rigging the election was not quite as successful ...

How can any one company hold so much fail? I don't know, but Diebold just keeps making more!

^That's been my experience too, and it's happened a few times. It's probably nothing.

Unless DLJ are using Diebold software.

That was actually pretty cute - Upvoted. Any future votes from me will have to come from Diebold.

I am almost certain a Diebold was used when counting Ukulele-Mans votes...

It's not just Diebold.. there are other companies like ES&S that sell mass quantities of electronic voting machines where their security is lacking. I'm glad to see this discussed on mainstream tv, even if it is just a mediocre comedic fanfare show. Oh btw Maher, you're a conspiracy theorist now and don't worry.. it's not a bad thing, because conspiracies do exist... people do conspire against one another.. to think otherwise would mean you're crazy.

Oh got. Tony is such a farking tool. Love how he keeps misdirecting the conversation to voter ID fraud and away from Diebold. And by love, I mean makes me want to punch babies.