Diebold admits to broken voting machines

From the everybody knew but those in charge file, comes a tale of the blatantly obvious. There are major problems with e-voting machines made by Diebold.

Diebold (now Premier Election Solutions) announced this week that their electronic voting systems lose votes.

The maker of touch-screen voting machines used in half of Ohio's counties has admitted that its own programming error is to blame for votes being dropped in some counties.

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

Critics of Premier and touch-screen voting in general have long argued that the systems aren't secure and can't be trusted.

Now counties are dumping millions of dollars worth of e-voting machines into the trash, or selling them for pennies on the dollar. Who knows how the elections during the past 8-years would have turned out without Diebold. Considering how the then-president of Diebold committed to give votes to Bush in 2004, maybe very different.