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...Center’s authority over the blogs’ content was briefly tested in 2003 by Derek A. Slater ’05, who posted internal memos from Diebold Election Systems, an electronic voting machine manufacturer, on his Harvard-hosted weblog. The memos, e-mails in which the company appeared to admit flaws in its voting machines, used across the country, had already been revealed on several other bloggers’ sites. Slater copied some of these memos onto his site, now titled “A Copyfighter’s Musings,” making...
...center of the debate one finds Diebold Elections Systems, Inc. and Election System and Software, Inc. (ES&S), the top two producers of electronic voting equipment in the country. Yet the companies are probably not so much competitors as cohorts. Why would two huge companies in the same industry be bedfellows? Because the president of Diebold Election Systems is Robert Urosevich, and the vice president of election services at ES&S is his brother, Todd. Together, the two companies’ equipment tallied an estimated 80 percent of the popular vote in this year’s election. Curiously enough...
...then attempted to switch back to a certified version “under the guise of routine maintenance” according to a county official. In the end, the counties used the uncertified software because it was found that the certified version did not count the votes correctly. Diebold, on the other hand, was forced to pay $2.6 million outright last month in order to settle a civil lawsuit in California in which the company was also accused of using uncertified software in an election. Not surprisingly, neither company has issued any kind of statement regarding the allegations. And despite...
...impossible to create effective electronic voting machines. As one may be tempted to wonder, “If I can use an ATM safely, why not an electronic voting machine?” Good question. Because while their track record shows that Diebold and ES&S can’t seem to consistently produce accurate, problem-free electronic voting machines, there are other companies that do. For example, Sequoia Voting Systems, the third largest voting systems company in the country, already employs a system that prints a simultaneous paper ballot with each touch screen vote cast. It is precisely...
Until the effective monopoly of the Diebold and ES&S in the voting systems industry is actually broken, and U.S. lawmakers focus on the need for accountable, auditable voting systems, election fraud will always be a risk. The only solution is continued scrutiny and advocacy. And in the meantime, if you happen to use a Diebold ATM—I suggest you keep your receipt...