Maryland sticks with Diebold, starts PR campaign

[strredwolf]

Thursday night, the Maryland Board of Elections has started a commercial PR campaign saying that the Diebold election machines were "safe, secure, and accurate."  These are the same machines used, and decertified, in California as being unsafe and insecure.  Diebold is being sued twice in our fellow west coast state for shoddy programming already proven by Maryland-based RABA Technologies in Columbia -- a fact published in both the Baltimore Sun and the Washinton Post, as well as broadcast on NPR and posted on tech news site Slashdot.org.  It is unfortunate that Maryland is stuck with using them, even though open source technology exists that has proven it's worth, and the call for paper logs and verification becomes more and more apparent.  A push is needed to follow the California lead:  Make the machines verifiable by non-electronic means.  Ask our congresscritters for paper receipts.