joegratz.net

Leaked internal memos from Diebold, a maker of electronic voting machines, reveal a troubling disregard for certification requirements imposed by their customers. They show that in a number of cases over the past four years, Diebold machines running uncertified software have been used in real elections in the United States. Further, the audit trail for these machines — the tamper-evident records that allow for recounts and other ex post investigations — is easily modified. You just open it up in Microsoft Access and make whatever modifications you want.

The text of the memos can be found here. The book in which they were first published, Black Box Voting, can be found in PDF form here. If these links go down (as they probably will — Diebold has been sending out C&Ds by the score to any site who so much as links to the memos), links to additional mirrors can be found here.

This is very troubling.