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Re: Ohio Audit Says Diebold Vote Database May Have Been Corrupted

__/ [ nessuno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ] on Friday 27 April 2007 23:09 \__

> Quote:
> ---------------
> 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...]
> -------------------------------
> 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

,----[ Quote ]
| 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.
`----

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061027/ap_on_hi_te/voting_machines

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