Diebold And The Not-So Beautiful

[kpete]

December 14, 2005
Diebold And The Not-So Beautiful
It's slipped off the Beltway radar screen, but election reform is alive and kicking, especially in the states. Advocates for more efficient, effective and accurate voting systems have reason to cheer.

Consider:

--two years ago, election officials were skeptical of voter-verified paper trails (VVPaT) for electronic machines. Today, according to the invaluable Electionline.org, 25 of them have written a VVPAT requirement into law. (And the big debate now is whether to count paper prints as official ballots during recounts.)
In '04, paper trails were not required in Ohio, in '05, 41 counties required it.

--four Midwestern states agreed to cooperate to improve election administration and registration

--MD's state board of elections is working with the University of Baltimore to research voter verification technology

--states are more proactive about testing machines; with heavy public scrutiny, CA election officials are weighing whether to recertify Diebold machines

--And the Diebold company -- a liberal activist bugbear -- seems to be crumbling. Its infamous CEO, Wally O'Dell, resigned. Shareholders filed suit for allegedly deceptive practices. One FL county decided to forever ban Diebold machines after a hacker demonstrated to officials how he could switch election results.
http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2005/12/diebold_and_the.html#more

[EC]

1. Ha...

Looks like the people that were in favor of cheating all of a sudden are not liking it so much...