Should Diebold be excluded from voting machine bid?

Great Debates
41

That is a long-winded way of acknowledging that you lost the argument.

42

Here is a long detailed analysis of the Diebold voting machines, by Douglas Jones, Prof of Comp Sci at U of Iowa. Disclaimer: I am not aware of any conflicts of interest he may have with other voting machine companies, so beware…

http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/voting/dieboldftp.html

History of voting irregularities:

http://workersrighttovote.org/more.htm

43

Update bump: a Slashdot link to a Salon story (with other stories linked to in the mod level 4 and 5 posts in the comments section) about just how incredibly easy it would be to tamper with election results the way the machines are set up now.

I guess in this case, the question becomes, if there were a way to mess with vote tallies with little fear of detection (which these machines seem to give), who exactly would take advantage of such a thing, and how? Would we ever know?

(Such issues also covered in threads like this and this.)

44

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=11743

It gives one pause doesn’t it?