Good news - SERVE abandoned

[ciphergoth]

Thanks to webcowgirl for the heads-up. The SERVE electronic voting system I discussed earlier has been canned by the DoD [NYTimes, registration required]. Rah! Good things sometimes do happen. Now all we need is for Maryland to abandon Diebold and we'll really be getting somewhere.

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[vvalkyri.livejournal.com]

yay!
And there's growing flak about Diebold

[tempaccount99]

no registration required

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[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this - this is one Slashdot tradition I appreciate. Hopefully it won't lead to people posting "FIRST POST!" when I make a journal entry :-)

Good news indeed

[zbyszek.livejournal.com]

A little ray of clue penetrating the dense fog ignorance.
The Diebold matter really is appalling,though. While I could put SERVE down to a mixture of the politicians' syllogism and that strangely naïve faith America tends to have in gee-whizz technology, the motivations of Diebold appear to me to be most suspect - and I am by no means a conspiracy theorist. The implications are certainly very worrying.

[narnee.livejournal.com]

More states than Maryland are using Diebold. Washington, Ohio, Texas, California, and Florida, and Georgia used them for an election in 2002 (with surprising results), among others.

The best fix for the mess, IMO, is The Voter Confidence and Increased Accessibility Act of 2003 (H.R.2239/S.1980) (http://www.verifiedvoting.org/fair_elections.asp).

See Black Box Voting (http://www.blackboxvoting.com/) and vertifiedvoting.org (http://www.vertifiedvoting.org/) for more info.