Diebold voting machine exam - Part III

Test your analytical skills against the local computer repair guy. Do you agree with his conclusions? This is the voting machine make, model and version used in New Hampshire presidential primary Jan. 8, 2008. Best place to discuss your findings is at Black Box Voting.ORG forums - http://www.blackboxvoting.org - Forums - Tech Central area

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• voting
• machines
• computers
• electronics
• diebold

[AnotherGlenn]

I have an electronics diploma and I work in automation. Yes, he seemed to know what he was talking about. I don't trust electronic voting. I don't know that I ever will.

[kroses]

And we choose a President of our country on this piece of crap? It is nothing short of infuriating!

[ubuntututorials]

If you shorted out an LED, that would mean that it would not light. Perhaps then, you could then make sure a particular candidate was always chosen, by permanently make a light dull? I dunno.

[ArabAmerican4RonPaul]

No wonder why no one on the other side of the world wants Bush Democracy! may be they know there what we don't know here.

[blindignition]

I dont understand why you don't get written confirmation of your vote or something tangible to match your vote. It would be cool if you could take a unique voter ID# and go online to verify your results against the actual election results. If they're going to do electronic voting, every individual should have the ability to verify his/her vote.

[benjaminshinobi]

I totally agree about the epoxy part. At the very least they should have SMT parts which are harder to rip out.

[insideriverside]

I think "New Hampshire Voting Machine Exam - Ballot reader" is part II

[NanetteW]

Bev - Susan,

Is 'Ballot Reader' - part two, please? I can't find part two to save - thank you.

[AjnaKotobide]

Fair point, hes not the spawn of Jim Henson and a sewing machine, but on a scale of security analysists he just doesn't measure up. To really get to the heart of the issue we need to get experts in, not parade uneducated opinions. There *is* a lot more at state than the engineering here, but to see it misrepresented is a terrible first step in something so critical to the democratic process.

[Sumac5]

AjnaKotobide, we need to be careful. Non-specialists like most of us hear techs and engineers argue about details (I was raised with engineers, I know) and tend to discount everything that is said. To save the vote, we have to be able to see the big picture, something specialists forget to do sometimes. It's also common to call lesser experts names like "muppet". Let's rise above that.