Comments on: Diebold: A New Beginning (to the First Step in E-Voting Terror) http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070817/diebold-renaming/ by John Paczkowski Tue, 24 Nov 2009 23:15:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Sequoia’s Voter Consternation Drive | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070817/diebold-renaming/comment-page-1/#comment-3159 Sequoia’s Voter Consternation Drive | John Paczkowski | Digital Daily | AllThingsD Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:47:27 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070817/diebold-renaming/#comment-3159 [...] Diebold: A New Beginning (to the First Step in E-Voting Terror) [...] [...] Diebold: A New Beginning (to the First Step in E-Voting Terror) [...]

]]> By: Your Vote? Still Of Diminishing Worth, Thanks To Our Leaders’ Corporatist, America-Hating Friends « Out Of My Mind http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070817/diebold-renaming/comment-page-1/#comment-2124 Your Vote? Still Of Diminishing Worth, Thanks To Our Leaders’ Corporatist, America-Hating Friends « Out Of My Mind Sat, 23 Aug 2008 09:49:33 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070817/diebold-renaming/#comment-2124 [...] were dropped in Ohio’s March primary elections? The ones that Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems (DBD), insisted were caused by faulty antivirus software and not a critical source code [...] [...] were dropped in Ohio’s March primary elections? The ones that Premier Election Solutions, formerly called Diebold Election Systems (DBD), insisted were caused by faulty antivirus software and not a critical source code [...]

]]> By: Lani Brown http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070817/diebold-renaming/comment-page-1/#comment-405 Lani Brown Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:37:36 +0000 http://digitaldaily.allthingsd.com/20070817/diebold-renaming/#comment-405 Terror or something perhaps more chilling. When "A Margin of Error Ballots of Straw" was first conceived, I wanted only to draw attention to our badly flawed election system. However, as I started collecting "proof" to build a story, the sheer simplicity of shaving a few ballots off here and there, converting actual votes to undervotes and flipping others…then when the voting's done, replace the computer software with the original in case of an audit…Wouldn't even take geek brilliance. Within the caverns of the computers, call an elephant a donkey or a donkey an elephant, the computer doesn’t care. Of course an inside job is the easiest and quickest way to populate all the voting machines from a given vendor. But in light of our recent proof of lax quality control, who would ever find it? Is it possible? Absolutely. We can fix the machines, but if we are to achieve one voter, one vote…every time, we must go back to basics. Apply sound business practices to ensure the voting systems we purchase fully meet our needs for election integrity. And ensure those machines work …all of them. Not just a sampling. We're caught in a tailspin of bottom-up catch and fix of serious flaws that should have been addressed prior to purchase. Moreover, until we also fix our election laws to be on par with technology, to protect us from machine and human error, and HUMAN INTERPRETION of election results our election process will continue to be broken. The courts should not decide the people's choices for them. In "A Margin of Error: Ballots of Straw," when Florida's election is stolen, only one woman stands in the way of the governor's fast-track to the White House…one woman and the man sent to spy on her. Lani Massey Brown, MARGIN OF ERROR: BALLOTS OF STRAW, a novel of political intrigue/romantic suspense. Terror or something perhaps more chilling. When “A Margin of Error Ballots of Straw” was first conceived, I wanted only to draw attention to our badly flawed election system. However, as I started collecting “proof” to build a story, the sheer simplicity of shaving a few ballots off here and there, converting actual votes to undervotes and flipping others…then when the voting’s done, replace the computer software with the original in case of an audit…Wouldn’t even take geek brilliance. Within the caverns of the computers, call an elephant a donkey or a donkey an elephant, the computer doesn’t care. Of course an inside job is the easiest and quickest way to populate all the voting machines from a given vendor. But in light of our recent proof of lax quality control, who would ever find it?

Is it possible? Absolutely. We can fix the machines, but if we are to achieve one voter, one vote…every time, we must go back to basics. Apply sound business practices to ensure the voting systems we purchase fully meet our needs for election integrity. And ensure those machines work …all of them. Not just a sampling. We’re caught in a tailspin of bottom-up catch and fix of serious flaws that should have been addressed prior to purchase.

Moreover, until we also fix our election laws to be on par with technology, to protect us from machine and human error, and HUMAN INTERPRETION of election results our election process will continue to be broken. The courts should not decide the people’s choices for them.

In “A Margin of Error: Ballots of Straw,” when Florida’s election is stolen, only one woman stands in the way of the governor’s fast-track to the White House…one woman and the man sent to spy on her.

Lani Massey Brown, MARGIN OF ERROR: BALLOTS OF STRAW, a novel of political intrigue/romantic suspense.

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