California Seeks Security Test for Diebold Machines
California’s top election official will ask the federal government to review the security of software used with Diebold Inc.‘s electronic voting machines and investigate claims that results could be vulnerable to hackers, a spokeswoman said on Wednesday.
Diebold has been dogged by complaints while trying to certify its electronic voting machines for sale in California, the most populous U.S. state and a potentially lucrative market.
County election officials in California and other states are eager to upgrade paper-based voting systems to avoid controversies like that surrounding the recount of punch-card ballots in Florida during the 2000 presidential election.
Some groups, however, question the security of electronic voting systems and are concerned about Diebold in particular.
The company has been under fire from activists over former company chairman and chief executive Walden O’Dell‘s role in President George W. Bush‘s re-election campaign in Ohio, and some charge Diebold‘s voting systems are not as safe from tampering as the company claims.
The elections watchdog group Black Box Voting Inc. has offered to California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson to arrange for a computer security consultant to attempt to hack a Diebold voting system.
Source: IT Hub.
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