Two bits, actually.
- First, the EFF announced today that it’s filing suit against Diebold for abuse of copyright claims; they’ll be representing the Swarthmore students who linked to the leaked memos.
- In other news, Wired News is running a story about electronic voting systems that DON’T suck — in Australia. Quotes:
“Why on earth should (voters) have to trust me — someone with a vested interest in the project’s success?” [Lead engineer Matt Quinn] said. “A voter-verified audit trail is the only way to ‘prove’ the system’s integrity to the vast majority of electors, who after all, own the democracy.”
And on the wretched security and design of the Diebold system:“The only possible motive I can see for disabling some of the security mechanisms and features in their system is to be able to rig elections,” Quinn said. “It is, at best, bad programming; at worst, the system has been designed to rig an election.”