Ohio Sues Diebold Over Missing Votes

The state of Ohio is suing Diebold (now known by their porn alias, Premiere Election Systems) over their faulty electronic voting machines. In a recent state-wide election, votes were "dropped" from 11 different counties when the individual machines' memory cards were uploaded to a central server. Chris Riggal, a spokesman for the company, explained that this happened because of a conflict with the server's anti-virus software. I am assuming this is because Diebold views Democracy as virus to be wiped out. Riggal further defended the machines, saying that the errors were caught due to the system's features, which include a paper audit trail. While it's true that a paper trail is a great, albeit obvious, "feature" to include in a voting system, an even better feature would be a system that is at least as reliable as my university's web-based Homecoming Queen election. Read more here.