42nd-delay
09-09-2004, 04:22 PM
Is anyone else worried about these things? I'd expect this to be an issue that would cross party lines. I'm more than a bit anxious about the fact that the new touch-screen machines seem to be, at best, unrealiable, and at worst, ripe for corruption.
The latest:
State Joins Suit Over Voting Machines (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-machines8sep08,1,384118.story)
Some excerpts:
California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer on Tuesday said he will join a lawsuit against voting machine manufacturer Diebold Election Systems for allegedly lying to state regulators about the security of some of its equipment.
The lawsuit was filed in November by two voting-rights activists who contend that Texas-based Diebold sold vote-counting equipment to Alameda County that was susceptible to tampering.
And this is really scary (emphasis is mine):
The system's key vulnerability is that county election workers or others with access to the machines could type in a two-digit code and create a second set of results that would then be forwarded to the state as the county's official tally , said Bev Harris, one of the activists who filed the case. She said the Diebold vote-tabulating equipment at the center of the lawsuit is used in 19 California counties, including Los Angeles County.
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"42nd-delay is the only person who's making sense." - Ron, 3-12-02
The latest:
State Joins Suit Over Voting Machines (http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-machines8sep08,1,384118.story)
Some excerpts:
California Atty. Gen. Bill Lockyer on Tuesday said he will join a lawsuit against voting machine manufacturer Diebold Election Systems for allegedly lying to state regulators about the security of some of its equipment.
The lawsuit was filed in November by two voting-rights activists who contend that Texas-based Diebold sold vote-counting equipment to Alameda County that was susceptible to tampering.
And this is really scary (emphasis is mine):
The system's key vulnerability is that county election workers or others with access to the machines could type in a two-digit code and create a second set of results that would then be forwarded to the state as the county's official tally , said Bev Harris, one of the activists who filed the case. She said the Diebold vote-tabulating equipment at the center of the lawsuit is used in 19 California counties, including Los Angeles County.
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"42nd-delay is the only person who's making sense." - Ron, 3-12-02