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Ohio’s got election problems. So what else is new, right? A report commissioned by the Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner has found significant flaws in all five of the electronic voting systems used by county elections boards. This, less than a year before the presidential election next November.
“The findings in this study indicate [...]

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Note: John Paczkowski is on vacation and won’t be writing or posting videos until he returns Monday.

To keep you abreast of tech news while he’s away, we’re compiling a daily digest of 10 must-read tech stories. We’re calling it the Tech 10 and it appears below.

1. As inevitable as death and taxes: YouTube, the world’s No. 1 video site, will begin placing ads in its videos, All Things Digital’s Kara Swisher reports. The animated advertising will appear no earlier than 15 seconds into a video, overlaid on the bottom fifth of the screen. Citing viewer revulsion, a YouTube product manager told NewTeeVee the site will not use the dreaded preroll or postroll.

2. Apple, leveraging its deal-brokering with AT&T stateside, has signed up European partners for iPhone sales and service. A report in the Financial Times notes that three telecoms–T-Mobile in Germany, Orange in France and O2 in the United Kingdom–will fork over 10% of the revenues made from iPhone calls and data transfers.

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Though it tried for more than a year, Diebold has been unable to sell off the electronic-voting subsidiary that is transforming its brand into a synonym for flawed electronic-voting systems. And so the company is doing the next best thing–renaming it.
“Diebold and its financial consultants have been actively engaged with a number of strategic companies [...]

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If one set out to design electronic voting machines that undermine voter confidence and threaten the integrity and accuracy of the whole election process, it would be hard to outdo those of Diebold Election Systems, if a new analysis is to be believed.
The California Secretary of State has finally released the source-code review portion of [...]

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With the presidential primary approaching, Diebold Election Systems is finally developing a voter-verified paper trail–of bad press. Earlier this week, the company made headlines when a team of investigators found the company made headlines when a team of investigators found another government-ordered study that found its optical-scanning machines to be flawed as well.

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California Secretary of State Debra Bowen has finally released the results of an unprecedented top-to-bottom review of the state’s electronic voting machines and, what do you know, they were all easily hacked. Researchers at the University of California discovered more than a dozen vulnerabilities in voting systems manufactured by Diebold Election Systems, Hart InterCivic and [...]

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