Vote "counting"
While you may (or may not) be still celebrating the election results I suggest that you go check out the HBO documentary Hacking Democracy while it is still available on Google Video. Surprisingly HBO has not yet asked Google to take down the video on their site, perhaps that is intentional as they realize it will get a wider audience that way, as it so rightly should.
This is a clear demonstration of what happens when you try to create security by secrecy - the truth will out. As the documentary says, if a bank behaved this way there would be a federal investigation the very next day. Unfortunately since its only "democracy" we're concerned about (you know that thing we paid $300 billion to not bring to Iraq) nobody in power seems to give a damn - or seemed to until today. Nancy Pelosi - maybe you'd like to add an investigation of vote fraud, Diebold and a whole host of other voting issues into your first 100 hours wish list?
Update (11/10/06): Sorry, this video is no longer on Google, I guess HBO made them take it down.
posted by Blog Gently @ 11/08/2006 11:34:00 PM
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Yeah, it amused me that the Diebold brand was prominent on an ATM I used at the weekend. Seems that they know how to do paper trails and proper accounting - they just chose not to for election machines.
Guess it might also be a problem that the election officials didn't have proper requirements for the machines early on, but you'd have thought that a company that makes ATMs would have used the same standards.
I started noticing the Diebold label on Wells Fargo ATMs a couple of years ago around the time of the last election. However it seems that Wells' new generation of machines is made by a European company - maybe Diebold can't count money either? Or maybe Diebold has such a bad reputation that no one wants to use them or buy them any more. I hope so.
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