Company Defends Electronic Voting System

[Nambe]

BALTIMORE July 25 — AP

The manufacturer of an electronic voting system criticized in a new study as being vulnerable to fraud defended its product Friday, saying the researchers reached faulty conclusions because they had several technical misunderstandings.

Diebold Election Systems said computer security experts at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore reached their conclusions by using outdated computer code for its touchscreen software. The company also said the researchers ran the software on a device on which it was not designed to work.

In addition, Diebold said many of the weaknesses attributed to the operating system on which the software was tested are inapplicable to the operating system used by the North Canton, Ohio-based company. ---

[ColumbusGirl]

1. If you disagree you're obviously misunderstanding the question....

Sounds like * logic to me.

You're wrong, but I won't back that up with fact, it's propriatary.

[papau]

2. Diebold statement

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=79140&mesg_id=79140&page=1

has the Diebold statement

other threads on this are

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=79140&mesg_id=79140&page=4

Also info at:

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0703/24votemachines.html http://cronus.com/electionfraud/efresources.asp http://slashdot.org/articles/03/07/24/153258.shtml?tid=103&tid=126&tid=128&tid=99 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=72311&threshold=1&commentsort=0&tid=103&tid=126&tid=128&tid=99&mode=thread&pid=6523238#6524050