Suspect Code Used in State Votes (CA)

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http://www.wired.com/news/evote/0,2645,61092,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2
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An investigation by California's secretary of state has revealed that Diebold Election Systems placed uncertified software on electronic voting machines in a California county.

Voters in Alameda County, a densely populated region in the San Francisco Bay Area that includes the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, used a Diebold touch-screen-voting system utilizing uncertified software in Tuesday's election and in last month's gubernatorial recall election.

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A former worker in the Diebold warehouse in Georgia has alleged that the company installed three uncertified software patches last year on 22,000 machines that it sold to Georgia for $56 million.

The employee, who worked as Diebold's deployment manager in its Georgia warehouse in July 2002, said workers installed three patches to fix malfunctioning machines before delivering them to Georgia counties. He said Diebold never notified state officials about the changes or submitted the patches for review and certification by an independent testing authority. A fourth patch that state contractors applied after the machines were delivered to the counties and shortly before the gubernatorial election in 2002 was passed through an independent testing authority, according to a state contractor.

Diebold did not return calls for comment.
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1. Holy Flori-duh, nu_duer!

Here we go again. Terminate the Terminator, sponsored by Diebold Election Systems!

:argh:

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2. My state (VA) is finalizing a system decision and this will be sent to the

Governor's office. They only get one side of the story..Diebolds!