We have all head for years now the concerns with electronic voting machines. As a software engineer, I always thought that a voting machine should be one of the simplest machines on the planet to design. I mean really… how badly can you screw up:
Candidate += 1;
Well, now comes word from the Washington Post that Premier Election Systems, formerly Diebold, announced their voting tabulation software, GEMS, has a flaw that causes it to incorrectly count votes. Diebold systems are used in elections all across the country. In local, state and federal elections. So your county may have a pretender to the throne elected as the new dog catcher and perhaps maybe the vote counts are incorrect for higher offices.
Here is CNN’s coverage of the story:
Hacking Democracy is an HBO documentary about the lack of security in electronic voting machines.
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