[Cross-posted at
The Daily Background]
The state of North Carolina yesterday was
slapped with a lawsuit alleging that the state approved and contracted three different electronic voting systems without reviewing the source code to check for security, state compliance and other reasons.
Read on for the Details....
The suit (PDF), filed by the
Electronic Frontier Foundation (often reffered to as the ACLU of the internet) also alleges that the state did not even obtain the voting source code from Diebold Inc- who refused to hand it over. Apparently North Carolina's Board of Elections seemed to shrug and approve them anyways, signing a contract for the 2006 elections- a regulation of North Carolina voting law.
According to the news site Internet News,
"The [North Carolina] Board of Elections certified Diebold despite its admitted inability to comply with the law."
The tech community has
responded angrily to this outrage at the well-known technology news site
Slashdot.org.
[Cross-posted at
The Daily Background]
Update 1: jorndorff
notes that Diebold has not actually been given a contract yet- it has merely been certified. it can however be given a contract at any time now
Update 2: BradBlog has
more.