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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/38916eb4-5aba-4022-b4ec-403de79a4ea1/BF981967-AF21-4F45-8D0A-929CD8644C95/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes/4488/" href="http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes/4488/" style="font-size: 11px;">rinf.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes/4488/"><H2 align="left"> <A title=" Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes" rel="bookmark" href="http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes/4488/">
        Diebold Finally Admits its Voting Machines Drop Votes      </A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes/4488/"><P>By <A href="http://www.schneier.com/blog/">Bruce Schneier</A> | Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems, <A href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/082208-e-voting-vendor-programming-errors-caused.html">has</A> <A href="http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/26/decade_old_evoting_error/">finally</A> <A href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/08/23/diebold-comes-clean-admits-that-its-e-voting-machines-are-fault/">admitted</A> <A href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/08/21/ohio_voting_machines_contained.html">that</A> a ten-year-old error has caused votes to be dropped.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes/4488/"><P>Ohio is trying to <A href="http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/48508.html">sue</A>:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes/4488/"><P>Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner is seeking to recover millions of dollars her state spent on the touch-screen machines and is urging the state legislature to require optical scanners statewide instead.In a lawsuit, Brunner charged on Aug. 6 that touch-screen machines made by the former Diebold Election Systems and bought by 11 Ohio counties “produce computer stoppages” or delays and are vulnerable to “hacking, tampering and other attacks.” In all, 44 Ohio counties spent $83 million in 2006 on Diebold’s touch screens.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes/4488/">if this error is random or systematic. If it’s random — a small percentage of all votes are </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes/4488/">dropped — then it is highly unlikely that this affected the outcome</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes/4488/">If it’s systematic — </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://rinf.com/alt-news/contributions/diebold-finally-admits-its-voting-machines-drop-votes/4488/">then it is much more problematic.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/BF981967-AF21-4F45-8D0A-929CD8644C95/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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