Reply #6: NC: The fruits of Diebold’s cluture of …uh, well you guess. [View All]

”About” did a nice job on the NC story. Diebold says it’s leaving the state rather than excrow it’s software as per state requirement. Then the former Diebold employee appointed as elections head in NC by the Democratic governor approves Diebold. Wow, you tell me on this one. WTFF


http://uspolitics.about.com/b/a/207508.htm

From Kathy Gill

Your Guide to U.S. Politics: Current Events.
code review. Last week, InfoWorld's Robert X. Cringely reported:

NC Approves Diebold Despite Refusal to Submit Source Code

North Carolina's State Elections Board has approved Diebold Election Systems, Election Systems & Software and Sequoia Voting Systems for purchase by the state's 100 counties. All three are touchscreen systems and all, reportedly, provide a paper trail. However, a hearing is scheduled for Wednesday on Diebold's refusal to comply with state requirements for independent code review. Last week, InfoWorld's Robert X. Cringely reported

After electronic voting booths in North Carolina misplaced 4,500 votes in last year’s elections, the state passed rules requiring voting machine software to be independently tested before approving it for sale. Although Diebold refused to turn over the source code for its Windows-based product, NC’s state elections board -- which employs a consultant who happens to be a former Diebold employee -- approved the software anyway. I’m not sure what’s scarier: that election boards can be so easily co-opted, or that we elect people by using machines running Windows CE.

On Thursday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina Board of Elections and the North Carolina Office of Information Technology Services for failure to comply with state law requiring review of all system code "prior to certification."