Last Monday, the three-person St. Louis Election Board voted to go with Diebold for the city's new electronic voting system. This is what we in the computer industry call a "bad idea."
In September 2004, Diebold claimed their audit log "can't be altered by any human." In response, Black Box Voting, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization, trained a chimpanzee to quickly hack Diebold's system and delete the audit log. The Diebold central tabulator saves vote totals in a Microsoft Access database, for crying out loud — that's about as unstable and insecure as you can get. In related news, Diebold CEO, Wally O'Dell resigned this month under a cloud of litigation and accusations of fraud. You may remember O'Dell as the guy who promised he would "deliver" Ohio for President Bush.
Posted under Other by Brian Marston on Mon., Dec 26, 2005 at 10:56 PM
st. louis mayor's office is mine!!!!%$#^&
[Posted by trained chimp on Tue., Dec 27, 2005 at 10:20 AM]Simply amazing. It makes you wonder if the election board is just clueless, or perhaps the competitors are even worse. Although worse than Diebold is hard to believe.
[Posted by Andrew Hyatt on Tue., Dec 27, 2005 at 1:07 PM]I wrote to the STL Election Board and the Mayor's Office. Both wrote me personal replies. If you're interested, I can e-mail them to you when I am at home (on my laptop at home and I am at the office presently). They were very articulate in their feelings.
[Posted by Lily Bleu on Wed., Dec 28, 2005 at 9:38 AM]So who are these folks that are sidestepping all the evidence and observation? Names please...
Are we to assume that the fix is in, or is it just plain ignorance or stupidity? There's always been a suggestion of minor fraud in St. Louis elections, but now it seems like massive fraud will be the order of the day.
Sorry, STUPID can't be fixed; but elections sure can be!
[Posted by Dave Lewis on Sun., Mar 12, 2006 at 4:50 PM]Ed Martin (martinsimmondsstl@hotmail.com) is the chairman of the St. Louis Board of Elections.
[Posted by Brian Marston on Sun., Mar 12, 2006 at 5:38 PM]Member of the STL Syndicate
February 2009
December 2008
November 2008
October 2008
September 2008
August 2008
July 2008
May 2008
April 2008
March 2008
February 2008
January 2008
December 2007
November 2007
October 2007
September 2007
August 2007
July 2007
June 2007
May 2007
April 2007
March 2007
February 2007
January 2007
December 2006
November 2006
October 2006
September 2006
August 2006
July 2006
June 2006
May 2006
April 2006
March 2006
February 2006
January 2006
December 2005
November 2005
October 2005
September 2005
August 2005
July 2005
June 2005
May 2005
April 2005
March 2005
February 2005
January 2005
December 2004
November 2004
October 2004
September 2004
August 2004
July 2004
June 2004
May 2004
April 2004
March 2004
February 2004
January 2004
December 2003
November 2003
Business District (105)
Fun Links (65)
Other (78)
People (156)
STL in the News (76)
The Commonspace (75)
The Media (91)
