Diebold worse than reported

[demosincebirth]

Alameda County (Oakland) officials eye other voting systems.









http://www.insidebayarea.com/searchresults/ci_2909663

[carnie_sf]

1. That's great for us

in the Bay Area. We need to get this happening in other parts of the country.

[elehhhhna]

2. It's fun to check the posts on Yahoo's Diebold page,also:

http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mb?s=DBD

[xynthee]

3. snip from article - UNREAL

"In all, 19 machines had 21 screen freezes or system crashes, producing a blue screen and messages about an 'illegal operation' or a 'fatal exception error.' A Diebold technician had to restart the machine for voting to resume. Ten machines had a total of 11 printer jams. Almost a third of all machines in the mock election had one problem or another."

[Canuckistanian]

4. Why doesn't someone else make voting machines?

It seems to me like the market is ripe.

A bulletproof, paper-verifiable, easy-to-use machine.

Open source software, publicly available for inspection.

Secure, cannot be "altered" the day of the election or any time thereafter. Tamper-proof enclosures.

Standardized, identical machines. Training new operators would be easy with no specialized knowledge required. (No mysterious "technicians").

I say let someone start a company like that - and let the market and the people decide.

[skids]

6. There are plenty of other companies.

A full list would be huge.

...unfortunately most of the big ones are owned by untrustworthy concerns.

[MadMichDem]

7. Silly Wabbit, then how would they fix the elections???? n/t

[sam sarrha]

5. they only crash that much when the election is close or won by Democrat...

otherwise they work pretty darn good..

[cascadiance]

8. From Rethugs point of view that means they work perfectly!

They're "crashing" by design. Not a bug, but a feature, in their mind, and it is working as designed!