Ohio’s Voting Machines Have Glitch – I Hate Diebold

Ohio Secretary of State Jennifer Brunner sued Premier Election Solutions (formerly Diebold) because they sold Ohio counties faulty machines. They said they didn’t. Guess, what they admit their machines have a problem in the “source code.” The source code is like, well, the brains of the damn things. A lot of people were critical of Diebold’s election machine business. It looks like for good reason. Oh, and why did they change the name of the company? Don’t want to soil Diebold’s reputation in other businesses? It’s one thing for Microsoft to put out buggy software. That’s just a pain in the ass and a reboot. But election software and hardware that can’t be trusted? That’s a WTF. What if everything got turned around because of technical error with voting equipment and we were all toiling under Governor Blackwell? That’s a ROTF WTF. The jobs in Hebron. Now this. I hate Diebold.

From the Columbus Dispatch, filed tonight:

Premier, formerly Diebold Election Systems, initially speculated that the problem was a conflict between its system and anti-virus software.

But in a letter Tuesday to Brunner, Premier President David Byrd admitted that further testing showed a source-code error that can cause votes not to be recorded when memory cards are uploaded to computer servers under certain circumstances.

“We are indeed distressed that our previous analysis of this issue was in error,” Byrd wrote.

Brunner is suing to recover the millions of taxpayer dollars spent to buy Premier touch-screens after she said an investigation this year showed that votes in at least 11 counties had been dropped in recent elections.

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