![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Diebold back in the news...
Aug. 20th, 2008 04:37 pmOK, they're not Diebold anymore. Those sly bass-turds changed their name to Premiere Election Systems to avoid bad name recognition. But I digress.
I learned about the current issue through a recent XKCD comic strip. It turns out that PES machines (or is that PEZ?) were used in about half of Ohio's counties for this year's primary. In eleven counties, the machines "dropped votes." Once the problem was discovered, the votes were somehow found, and recounted.
What was the problem? An antivirus conflict in the machines. Of course, this begs the question, why do you need antivirus software on a stand-alone machine being used for one purpose only?
How many ways did this go wrong?
A nice article about the issue and an pending lawsuit
I learned about the current issue through a recent XKCD comic strip. It turns out that PES machines (or is that PEZ?) were used in about half of Ohio's counties for this year's primary. In eleven counties, the machines "dropped votes." Once the problem was discovered, the votes were somehow found, and recounted.
What was the problem? An antivirus conflict in the machines. Of course, this begs the question, why do you need antivirus software on a stand-alone machine being used for one purpose only?
How many ways did this go wrong?
A nice article about the issue and an pending lawsuit
