{"id":305,"date":"2003-12-11T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2003-12-11T19:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/12\/secure_election_profiteering\/"},"modified":"2003-12-11T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2003-12-11T19:29:08","slug":"secure_election_profiteering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/12\/secure_election_profiteering\/","title":{"rendered":"Secure Election Profiteering"},"content":{"rendered":"

One obvious safeguard to help address concerns about the Diebold voting machines<\/a> would be to add voter-verified printouts to the process. Apparently Diebold isn’t too keen on the idea, unless it can make a hefty profit<\/a>:<\/p>\n

An e-mail found in a collection of files stolen from Diebold Elections Systems’ internal database recommends charging Maryland “out the yin-yang” if the state requires Diebold to add paper printouts to the $73 million voting system it purchased.
\nThe e-mail from “Ken,” dated Jan. 3, 2003, discusses a (Baltimore) Sun article about a University of Maryland study of the Diebold system:
\n“There is an important point that seems to be missed by all these articles: they already bought the system. At this point they are just closing the barn door. Let’s just hope that as a company we are smart enough to charge out the yin if they try to change the rules now and legislate voter receipts.”
\n“Ken” later clarifies that he meant “out the yin-yang,” adding, “any after-sale changes should be prohibitively expensive.”
\nThe e-mail has been cited by advocates of voter-verified receipts, who say estimates of the cost of adding printers — as much as $20 million statewide — have been bloated.
\n. . .
\nState Board of Elections Administrator Linda H. Lamone told The Gazette last month that Diebold had given a preliminary estimate of $1,000 to $1,200 per machine to add printouts, or up to $20 million for the state’s more than 16,000 machines. She said last week that she could not recall whether she got the figure from Diebold or media reports.
\n. . .
\nThe issue of voter-verified paper receipts continues to gain momentum nationally, with California’s secretary of state announcing that all electronic voting machines there must include paper printouts by 2006. The cost cited by one of Diebold’s competitors, according to news reports, was about $500 a machine.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So Diebold is talking about charging double its competitors’ rates to add something that should have been included on their machines in the first place. Wonderful.
\nVia Atrios<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One obvious safeguard to help address concerns about the Diebold voting machines would be to add voter-verified printouts to the process. Apparently Diebold isn’t too keen on the idea, unless it can make a hefty profit: An e-mail found in a collection of files stolen from Diebold Elections Systems’ internal database recommends charging Maryland “out […]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}