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"committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
-Walden O'Dell CEO Diebold Inc
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The problem is touch screen voting machines which are produced by Diebold and several other companies. Most of the companies don't produce a paper trail for the voter to verify their vote. The government also has no way to perform a manual recount. The companies actually REFUSE to provide support for a printer to be attached to their machines.
These machines have been proven to be faulty. Hell they run on a modified version of Microsoft Access. There have been several elections already where these machines were used and exit polling results were beyond the margin of error norm in discrepancies.
There have been problems with Diebold applying unauthorized patches before an election. These machines are vulnerable to hackers as well, as the machines connect to the internet to download patches and can also use the net to upload their election results. It wouldn't be too hard for someone to hack these and change results either as the source code and sample files were accidentally available over their ftp server for several months last year. They have not changed their software in response.
Many states are waking up to the reality of the problems diebold and others pose and are reverting to old voting methods because they won't provide their machines with verifiable paper trails.
Diebold and others like them are the single largest threat to the electoral process in this country.