__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Friday 27 April 2007 23:09 \__
> Quote:
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> Problems found in an audit of Diebold tabulation records from an Ohio
> November 2006 election raise questions about whether the database got
> corrupted during the tabulation of election results...
>
> The database is built from Microsoft's Jet database engine. The
> engine, according to Microsoft, is vulnerable to corruption when a lot
> of concurrent activity is happening with the database, such as what
> occurs on an election night [and Microsoft advises againt using Jet in
> a complex environment]...
>
> The report mentions that election staff had trouble with the server
> crashing and freezing on election night....
>
> The report notes that with punch card machines election officials used
> to be able to determine definitively if all ballots had been counted
> in the results....
>
> [Other suggestions of vote tampering in addition to technical
> failure...those responsible are promoted...]
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> http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/04/diebold_vote_da.html
>
> Diebold voting machines operate on Microsoft Windows, and rely on
> closed source for security.
In such cases (false outcome), even BSODs are much more desirable...
Diebold quietly repaired voting machines
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| The unpredictable freezes don't cause votes to be lost, officials
| said, but they confuse voters and election judges who sometimes
| wonder whether votes cast on a frozen machine will be counted.
|
| [...]
|
| Diebold Election Systems quietly replaced flawed components in
| several thousand Maryland voting machines in 2005 to fix a
| "screen-freeze" problem the company had discovered three years
| earlier, according to published reports Thursday.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_hi_te/voting_machines
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