Touch Screen Voting Industry Circling Wagons (Slashdot)

[DBoon]

Straight from "news for nerds":

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday September 23, @09:35AM
from the jesse-james-for-governor dept.

bhoman writes "Salon has an interesting article/interview with the author of a forthcoming book, Black Box Voting, by Bev Harris, that looks at electronic voting machines, especially Diebold touchscreens. The story includes incriminating internal memos, cease and desist orders from Diebold, transcripts of an industry teleconference where Harris Miller of the ITAA brags of his lobbying experience, and documentation of a backdoor via an Access MDB with no password. This is for software currently being used in 37 states. "

See http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/23/1235245&mode=thread&tid=103&tid=99 for a discussion by obsessed technology geeks on the down side of electronic voting

A Microsoft Access database with no password? Aaargh! Aarrgh!

[shirlden]

1. Interesting comments

Obviously most Americans "get it" when given the truth. Keep spreading the word. It is only democracy we are fighting for and not just here but all over the world as these infernal machines spread their evil from country to country.

:mad: :grr: :bounce:

[Resistance Is Futile]

7. /. "gets everything"

/. is not most Americans. The words "MS Access" and 'voting machines" would have been more than enough to get that hornet's nest going.

[Bushfire]

2. This reply had me laughing for a second

Access Database? (Score:5, Funny)
by 16K Ram Pack (690082) on Tuesday September 23, @09:40AM (#7033233)
In a voting system?
I wouldn't use an Access Database as a way of securing my list of CDs, let alone my democracy.

Then again, does Dubya have any more brothers who are governors?

[NewYorkerfromMass]

3. Try this one and see if you are laughing:

Touch Screens are GOOD (Score:1, Interesting)
by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 23, @09:39AM (#7033223)
Touch Screens are GOOD!
The technology is getting an incredibly bad smear thanks to the idiots at Diebold who are using it in ways which are, well, dishonest. I wish somehow the technology could be separated from the fools who use it to further their schemes. Let's hear it for all the good that touchscreens do !

NYfM says: Well that's the rub isn't it? The technology is only as "good" as the humans who create and use it. Good luck in your fool
separation endeavors.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

4. kick

[NewYorkerfromMass]

5. kick (in case anyone wants to discuss something important)

[Zhade]

6. Kick.

kick.