Diebold Admits Programming Flaw May Cause Ohio Machines to Lose Votes
You go to the polls and expect your vote to be counted, but in Ohio this fall that may not be the case thanks to a glitch in Diebold's touchscreen electronic voting machines. Premiere Election Solutions, a subsidiary of Diebold, acknowledged this week a flaw that causes the systems to lose votes. Fortunately the problem has been recognized, but unfortunately it can't be patched before the November 4th election. The touchscreen voting machines are used in half of Ohio's counties.
The state of Ohio, which has been a source of scandal in past presidential elections, will undoubtedly be carefully scrutinized this time around knowing fully well the errors that may happen. And with Ohio being a key battleground state in the election, the stakes are high.
"As Ohio goes, so goes the nation." That saying has remained true since 1960, where the candidate of choice in Ohio has always gone on to become the elected President. Furthermore, no Republican has won the presidency without winning Ohio since the days of Lincoln. Could a few votes lost here or there swing the election in one party's favor, or is the deal already sealed, as some suspect?
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Diebold Admits Programming Flaw
Stephen Spoonamore a renowned cyber security expert and life long Republican states unambiguously that electronic voting machines cannot be made secure. He provides a stunning indictment of the electronic voting machine industry in a video interview on velvetrevolution.us. We think we are living in a democracy. Not so if citizens are not informed about and mobilized to demand vote counting accountability. Our democracy is in jeopardy until we ban all touchscreen voting machines and require rigorous audits of optical scan vote tallies against a hand count of the paper ballots. We need emergency legislation that mandates voting machine accountability nationwide. Paper ballots must be used for the presidential race in states that use paperless direct recording electronic (DRE's). We also need legislation that requires a reckoning of electronic vote totals with paper audit trails in the states that have audit trails before the election results are certified. To avoid mayhem and contested recounts in a close presidential election in November we need legislation in place that requires random surprise audits of the paper audit trail compared to the machine totals.
Teresa Blakely
Get rid of all voting machines and secret vote counts
"Fortunately the problem has been recognized" -- nope.
If the problem had really been recognized, none of us would be showing up to vote in November.
Because the problem is that ALL electronic voting machines, including optical scanners, have to GO. All secretive ballot counting behind closed doors has to GO.
Until America realizes that their votes haven't counted for decades and rally together to demand election change, then NO, the problem has NOT been recognized.
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