Comments on: diebold admits voting machine misses votes

By: Alex Henderson

Alex Henderson — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:19:46 +0000

I would love to see someone like ‘rms’ develop an open and infallible voting machine (obviously assuming the hardware itself isn’t compromised) – beyond the US [which are probably doomed to repeat this process with the rather shady way they put contracts out for tender] this would obviously be of benefit to a lot of emerging nations etc. trying to remove some elements of corruption from elections.

By: shane

shane — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 21:50:38 +0000

The real problem with Diebold (according to many stories published, mainly back during the last US Pres election which Dubya “won”) is that they are untouchable in court and they are federally exempt from having their software audited. How can you guarantee accurate and impartial election results when the company responsible for collecting the results is free from regulatory oversight?