Computer programmers say software bugs, hackers or electrical failures
could cause more than 50,000 touch-screen machines used in precincts
nationwide to delete or alter votes.
From The Associated Press, 12/17/03:
http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61640,00.html
Con Job at Diebold Subsidiary
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SAN FRANCISCO --
At least five convicted felons secured management positions at a
manufacturer of electronic voting machines, according to critics
demanding more stringent background checks for people responsible for
voting machine software.
Voter advocate Bev Harris alleged Tuesday that managers of a
subsidiary of Diebold, one of the country's largest voting equipment
vendors, included a cocaine trafficker, a man who conducted fraudulent
stock transactions and a programmer jailed for falsifying computer
records.
The programmer, Jeffrey Dean, wrote and maintained proprietary code
used to count hundreds of thousands of votes as senior vice president
of Global Election Systems, or GES.
Diebold purchased GES in January 2002.
According to a public court document released before GES hired him,
Dean served time in a Washington state correctional facility for
stealing money and tampering with computer files in a scheme that
"involved a high degree of sophistication and planning."
"You can't tell me these people passed background tests," Harris,
author of Black Box Voting: Ballot Tampering in the 21st Century, said
in a phone interview.
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That 2004 election's gonna be a beaut.
Harry
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