{"id":1770,"date":"2003-09-24T06:01:21","date_gmt":"2003-09-24T20:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/diebolds-voting-machines\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:26:38","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:26:38","slug":"diebolds-voting-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/09\/24\/diebolds-voting-machines\/","title":{"rendered":"Diebold&#039;s voting machines"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13255,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com\\\/tech\\\/feature\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/23\\\/bev_harris\\\/index_np.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.salon.com\\\/tech\\\/feature\\\/2003\\\/09\\\/23\\\/bev_harris\\\/index_np.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13256,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/blackboxvoting.org&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/blackboxvoting.org\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13257,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/holt.house.gov\\\/issues2.cfm?id=5996&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20141129103520\\\/http:\\\/\\\/holt.house.gov:80\\\/issues2.cfm?id=5996&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 08:32:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-12 08:32:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13258,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/004281.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.dailykos.com\\\/archives\\\/004281.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13259,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.goringe.net\\\/tis\\\/archives\\\/000177.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>There&#8217;s a good article on Salon looking at the issues with Diebold&#8217;s electronic voting machines, which are being used to replace troublesome punch-card voting machines after the 2000 voting debacle. It doesn&#8217;t look like our votes are any safer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salon.com\/tech\/feature\/2003\/09\/23\/bev_harris\/index_np.html\" title=\"An open invitation to election fraud\">under the new system<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  &#8230;according to Bev Harris, a writer who has spent more than a year investigating the shadowy world of the elections equipment industry, the replacement technologies the court cited may be worse &#8212; much worse &#8212; than the zany punch-card systems it finds so abhorrent. Specifically, Harris&#8217; research into Diebold, one of the largest providers of the new touch-screen systems, ought to give elections officials pause about mandating an all-electronic vote.<\/p>\n<p>  Harris has found critical flaws in Diebold&#8217;s voting software, and she&#8217;s uncovered internal Diebold memos in which employees seem to suggest that the vulnerabilities are no big deal. The memos appear to be authentic &#8212; Diebold even sent Harris a notice warning her that by posting the documents on the Web, she was infringing upon the company&#8217;s intellectual property. Diebold did not return several calls for comment.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only has Diebold refused to comment, they&#8217;ve gone so far as to force Bev Harris to <a href=\"http:\/\/blackboxvoting.org\/\" title=\"BlackBoxVoting.org\">take down her site exposing the vulnerabilities<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Due to a dispute with Diebold, Incorporated, and its wholly owned subsidiary Diebold Election Systems, Inc.\u00a0(collectively &#8220;Diebold&#8221;), which is claiming links to certain materials that do not reside on the blackboxvoting.org website constitute\u00a0 copyright infringement, blackboxvoting.org has been temporarily disabled.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Congressman Rush Holt has sponsored a bill that would <a href=\"http:\/\/holt.house.gov\/issues2.cfm?id=5996\" title=\"Rep. Rush Holt: Rep. Rush Holt Introduces Legislation to Require All Voting Machines To Produce A Voter-Verified Paper Trail\">require electronic voting machines to produce a paper trail<\/a> &#8212; this measure should definitely be supported.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailykos.com\/archives\/004281.html\" title=\"Diebold machines are scary shit\">Kos<\/a>, [Kos &#91;again&#93;], <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goringe.net\/tis\/archives\/000177.html\" title=\"Things I've Seen: Support This\">Chris<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a good article on Salon looking at the issues with Diebold&#8217;s electronic voting machines, which are being used to replace troublesome punch-card voting machines after the 2000 voting debacle. It doesn&#8217;t look like our votes are any safer under the new system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-1770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}