Diebold Disks May Have Been For Testers

opencity writes "The Washington Post reports on the two Diebold source disks that were anonymously sent to a Maryland election official this past week. Further investigation has lead individuals involved to believe the disks came from a security check demanded by the Maryland legislature sometime in 2003." From the article: "Critics of electronic voting said the most recent incident in Maryland casts doubt on Lamone's claim that Maryland has the nation's most secure voting system. "There now may be numerous copies of the Diebold software floating around in unauthorized hands," said Linda Schade, co-founder of TrueVoteMD, which has pressed for a system that provides a verifiable paper record of each vote."

New tag

[DittoBox]

The new tagging system is cool. Diebold gets my "wretchedhiveofscumandvillainy" tag.

Can't do much with these disks

[Anonymous Coward]

Can't play on ranked servers without a cd key and the gameplay itself is more boring than WoW. I'll stick with BF2.

Conspiracy theory

[sshore]

Perhaps she's concerned about the give_election_to_highest_bidder() function being discovered..

Re:New tag

[LordEd]

In other news, slashdot search queries for "wretchedhiveofscumandvillainy" increases dramatically.

Can we borrow yours?

[Kadin2048]

I hope to the gods that Americans aren't backward enough to have only male options in parliament

Actually, our options for Parliament are even more limited than that...

Re:Can't do much with these disks

[TubeSteak]

Now that's now fair.
It's still great fun over the LAN!!

Getting a bunch of friends together to suborn the vote is always a good time ;-)

Proper tags

[Capsaicin]

Proper tags for this article may include "Diebold" "voting machines" "Maryland"

Surely you can think of some more useful tags like "electoral fraud", "corruption," "cronyism" ...

Re:Just joking.

[SeaFox]

Although, if they did vote by email, imagine the junkmail vote....

Cheap C!@lis for President!
No money down m o r g a g e holds Senate majority!
And plenty of HOT! NUDE! GIRLS! in Congress!

Re:Conspiracy theory

[slughead]

I changed the currency to Japenese yen and bought the '04 election for $100.

Too bad the stupid spell checker changed 'Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracus' to "Bush" and we're stuck with this guy now.

Sorry dudes, my B.

-slug

abc news poll

[wkitchen]

ABC News is running a poll titled Is Your Vote Safe? [go.com] that asks:

"Are you confident that your vote is safe and will be counted in the election?"

Oddly, this poll seems to be suffering some voting irregularities itself. Repeatedly refreshing the results yields this strange sequence:

approx 12:30am, 10-23-06
no: 738 yes: 101 ns: 86 tot: 925

12:53am
no: 743 yes: 101 ns: 87 tot: 931

12:54am
no: 737 yes: 101 ns: 86 tot: 924

12:55am
no: 746 yes: 101 ns: 88 tot: 935

12:56am
no: 670 yes: 84 ns: 80 tot: 834

12:57am
no: 721 yes: 99 ns: 85 tot: 905

12:58am
no: 734 yes: 101 ns: 86 tot: 921

Re:Can't do much with these disks

[bky1701]

That's because you didn't buy the "think of the children" upgrade to your propaganda... err campaign center.

Previous story tags:

[cgenman]

Let's see if you can tell where these are from:

fud, no, yes, rms, notfud
scam, slownewsday
yay, spam, spamhaus, haha
wikipedia, copyright
fud, notfud, monopoly

'glad to see the system is working well.

Re:Can't do much with these disks

[Wellington Grey]

"Don't ask why, that's just how it is." Imagine if you told your kids that.

You've obviously never been a parent or a teacher.

-Grey [wellingtongrey.net]