Diebold Admits Audit Logs in ALL Versions of Their Software Fail to Record Ballot Deletions

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Source: BradBlog

Even the audit log system on current versions of Premier Election Solutions' (formerly Diebold's) electronic voting and tabulating systems --- used in some 34 states across the nation --- fail to record the wholesale deletion of ballots. Even when ballots are deleted on the same day as an election. That's the shocking admission heard today from Justin Bales, Premier's Western Region manager, at a State of California public hearing on the possible decertification of Diebold/Premier's tabulator system, GEMS v. 1.18.19.

Read more: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=6995

[Tommy_J]

1. More coverage at wired.com

The story is scathing but should not surprise anyone here.

[Rebellious Republican]

2. Shout it from the highest mountain, K&R

Voting Machine Controversy
by Julie Carr Smyth

COLUMBUS - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm

Ohio and 33 other states that used that system, not possible, its all just a tin foil hat conspiracy theory, yeah right!

:argh:

[BeFree]

3. So

When a ballot is deleted the machine just shows nothing was ever recorded?

That even on the audit part of the software, no real audit is possible?

So then, if there were a virus that went about deleting votes for, say, Proposition 8, there could be NO way to do any accurate count?

How could we have possibly allowed such a vote counting machine? Don't tell me that Bushco didn't know about this in 2001. They had to know!