One of our personal favs here at the Digest, Diebold, is back in the news.
From slashdot:
“Premier Election Solutions’ (formerly Diebold) GEMS 1.18.19 election software audit logs don’t record the deletion of ballots, don’t always record correct dates, and can be deleted by the operator, either accidentally or intentionally. The California Secretary of State’s office has just released a report about the situation (PDF) in the November 2008 election in Humboldt County, California
Wow.
And this gem,
Key audit trail logs in GEMS version 1.18.19 do not record important operator interventions such as deletion of decks of ballots, assign inaccurate date and time stamps to events that are recorded, and can be deleted by the operator.
Why…
Read on.
