Diebold in the Tropics: Stray Voting Machine Falls Off a Truck

[kpete]

Diebold in the Tropics: Stray Voting Machine Falls Off a Truck
Posted on August 7, 2008 by Colin Brayton


The Última Instância (Brazil) legal news service reports:

* TRE-SP diz que urna encontrada por pedestre ainda não pertencia ao tribunal

The state elections authority of São Paulo says in a press release that a voting machine found in the street by a passerby was not one of theirs and no one knows how it ended up falling off a truck.

O TRE-SP (Tribunal Regional Eleitoral de São Paulo) emitiu nota por meio de sua assessoria para informar que a urna eletrônica (modelo 2008) encontrada dentro de uma caixa na manhã desta quinta-feira (7/8), por um pedestre na avenida Condessa Elisabeth de Robiano, 950, próximo à avenida Salim Farah Maluf, no Belém, em São Paulo, estava sendo transportada pela Diebold Procomp Indústria Eletrônica Ltda. e ainda não pertencia a Justiça Eleitoral.

… the 2008 model electronic voting machine found in a box on Thursday morning by a pedestrian on Av. Condessa Elisabeth de Robiano, near Av. Salim Farah Maluf, in the Belém neighborhood of São Paulo, was being transported by Diebold Procomp Industria Electronica Ltda and was no longer the property of the elections authority.

Segundo o tribunal, a Diebold foi contratada para confeccionar urnas eletrônicas após vencer licitação feita pelo TSE (Tribunal Superior Eleitoral).

The state elections authority (TSE-SP) said that Diebold was hired to manufacture electronic voting machines after submitting a winning bid to the federal elections authority (TSE).

more here:
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/linkframe.php?linkid=66007

[ensho]

1. kick

nt

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Hmmmmm.......

[RedLetterRev]

3. Kick

verrrrrry interestingk. I'd love to look at the software, since those things are based on the same platform I work with on a daily basis. I wouldn't trust it as far as I could spit a rat. Now, one wonders what sort of footsie is going on in Brazil these days.

[Wilms]

4. Lot of links at the articles close.

I like the title of this one:

The Technological Sublime is the Last Refuge of a Scoundrel: The Fairy Tale of Brazilian Digital Democracy

http://cbrayton.wordpress.com/2006/10/14/the-technological-sublime-is-the-last-refuge-of-a-scoundrel-the-fairy-tale-of-brazilian-digital-democracy/

[robinlynne]

5. Shit Shit SHit! I'm from there and everyone believes their elections are honest

because the workers' party won. I have been telling them for years....

[electropop]

6. "So how did you get that source code, pal?" - "It fell off a truck, honest!"

If Diebold hasn't already confiscated the thing, it sure would be great to copy its memory! This could blow vapor voting right out of the water. In my dreams.

[tbyg52]

7. Oh yeah! Finders keepers! nt