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> There is nothing in the electronic voting debate that won't make you scratch your head wondering why they don't use known-good techniques. Corruption. Large
by wnight 15y ago
> There is nothing in the electronic voting debate that won't make you scratch your head wondering why they don't use known-good techniques.
Corruption. Large cash payouts to Diebold execs. The literal intent to commit treason and rig the USA's presidential elections.
How else can a company capable of making ATMs that don't leak cash create such a laughable amateur attempt at an e-voting machine. Furthermore, even if the creation of these criminally bad products was an accident almost every expert in crypto/security and election theory has stepped up to say that every element of the systems is broken, from the hardware having holes to the goals being impossible even in theory.
If this didn't go high up any single weakness found would have been enough to pull every Diebold voting machine. As is there are more regulations against lawn-darts...
- aptwebapps 15y agoTheir ATM machines are far from impregnable. They're harder to hack than the voting machines because the banks require it, but they aren't foolproof. Diebold's clients when selling voting machines are often county clerks or county commissioners. Sometimes they are secretaries of state. They aren't capable, for the most part, of assessing the machines. (The ones that are might find better alternatives). When they sell atm machines their clients are banks and when they lose money due to problems with the machines, they usually find out. They've been making a killing out of selling this crap, pure and simple.