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Classical_Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 03:05 PM
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Wired News E-Vote Machines Face Audit



By Kim Zetter | Also by this reporter Page 1 of 3 next »

02:00 AM Aug. 12, 2003 PT

After weeks of defending itself against charges of bad programming and lax security, Diebold Election Systems is facing an independent, third-party audit of the software for its touch-screen voting machines.

Maryland Gov. Robert L. Erhlich Jr. ordered the review after researchers at Johns Hopkins University and Rice University released a report (PDF) last month revealing numerous programming flaws and security vulnerabilities in the source code for Diebold's AccuVote-TS voting machines.


In March 2002, Maryland purchased more than 5,000 Diebold touch-screen terminals at a cost of $17 million. The machines were used in four counties in the state election that year...........

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0%2C1282%2C59976%2C00.html
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T Roosevelt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 03:09 PM
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1. Bev's covered this in an earlier thread
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=165603&mesg_id=165603

Seems that SAIC may simply be a whitewash, since the report won't be released...
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papau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 03:19 PM
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2. No peer review, no PR, just the usual GOP Trust ME - Bush lie?
And we know Bush does not lie, so it follows we should trust this secret review.
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 03:35 PM
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3. When reading this thread title, I thought maybe the IRS was on the case.
Darn!
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-12-03 05:12 PM
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4. This is a dupe.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=165603


I am locking this one.


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