That purveyor of all things craptacular, as it pertains to electronic voting, is in the news again. Diebold Premier Election Solutions has admitted that there is a problem with the touch screen voting machines in Ohio. Originally the vendor had blamed antivirus software for the problems that they were experiencing.
(natch)
From The Columbus Dispatch:
But in a letter Tuesday to Brunner, Premier President David Byrd admitted that further testing showed a source-code error that can cause votes not to be recorded when memory cards are uploaded to computer servers under certain circumstances.
“We are indeed distressed that our previous analysis of this issue was in error,” Byrd wrote.
Brunner is suing to recover the millions of taxpayer dollars spent to buy Premier touch-screens after she said an investigation this year showed that votes in at least 11 counties had been dropped in recent elections.
Recovering tax payer dollars for a start. What about auditing the results of past…oh, who am I kidding?
Silly me.
So, these machines that “lose” votes will not be fixed in time for the election? I say it’s time for one helluva refund for the State of Ohio. Get those pencils sharpened. Time to roll back to tried and true voting methods.
Makes ya nostalgic for the days when we worried about hanging chads, huh?
@Dan Glass
Absolutely. Makes ya kinda misty.
sigh