In other news, Diebold admits their machines lose votes
“Premier Election Solutions (a subsidiary of Diebold) has acknowledged a flaw that causes the systems to lose votes. It cannot be patched before the election and the machines are used in half of Ohio’s counties, but they are issuing guidelines for avoiding the problem that presumably contain a work-around. While Diebold initially blamed anti-virus software for the glitch, they have now discovered that the bug was their own fault for not recording votes to memory when the cards are uploaded in ‘certain circumstances’ — something their initial analysis missed. It would be nice to hope that Ohio poll workers would be tech-savvy enough to make this a non-issue, but they had poll worker shortages last year and might need tech-savvy people to volunteer.”
October 30th, 2008 at 1:11 pm
This kind of stuff is exactly why we need a third party so badly. I like what this website has to say about it. Its a great idea of how to get a third (or fourth) party without impacting this election at all:
http://www.thirdpartyvote.com
Definitly worth a minute to check out.