[ale] Diebold may face criminal charges

[aaron at pd.org (aaron)]

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 01:26, Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:
> http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,63191,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5
> 
> 	bjorn

The real kicker here is that the criminal charges stem from Diebold knowingly 
installing uncertified, untested software on their systems prior to running 
an election on  them. This criminal action is identical to what they did with 
every Diebold touch screen system in the entire State of Georgia for our 
November, 2002 general election.

While everyone here knows that any certification and testing process for these 
systems is mostly meaningless, especially without the requisite of Open 
Source software, certification is still a requirement under the laws that 
allow these paperless systems to be used, and the testing might even catch a 
few of the most blatant abuses. Apparently, though, certification is only 
important to our Secretary of State Cathy Cox when she can deceptively use it 
as a blockade to auditable systems, because the entire 2002 Georgia election 
was run on uncertified software.

Just the facts.

peace
aaron