US bars Ciber from testing e-voting terminals due to negligence
By Darren Murph 
posted January 7th 2007 5:16AM
posted January 7th 2007 5:16AM
Call us crazy, but we had a sneaking suspicion all along that all these e-voting woes were due to a lack in quality control testing somewhere along the approval line, and now it seems the US government has found its scapegoat. Ciber, Inc., the Colorado-based company responsible for testing a majority of the nation's electronic voting terminals, "has been temporarily barred from approving new machines after federal officials found that it was not following its QC procedures, and moreover, could not document that it was conducting all the required tests." Aside from wondering where the oh-so-critical auditors were during this entire debacle (read: federal scrutiny of the testing began just recently), this brings into question the legitimacy of the votes that were actually placed and counted through the potentially faulty machines, but alas, what's done is (presumably) done. Eager to keep that expectedly gigantic government contract money pouring in, Ciber seems to be on top of the issues at hand, and a spokesperson for the outfit even stated that "the company believed that it had addressed all the problems, and that it expected to receive its initial federal accreditation later this month." We just hope that undercover chess functionality somehow goes unnoticed.[Via Slashdot]
that photo is priceless, hahaha
Electronic voting! Another electronic marvel we can thank Al Gore for.
Crazy? No, just spectacularly naive--or possibly dishonest. It's pretty hard at this late date to ignore the political symbiosis between the nation's e-voting terminal maker and the Republican party. What's your excuse?
I'm with you v1m. Republicans need to know that the war of words with Chavez doesn't fool us. Sequoia must not be allowed to engage in wholesale theft of our elections. Smart people like myself and v1m can see through their little charade.
D*mn them! D*mn them all to Hell!
God help us if we allow them to continue their killing ways. First the Republicans wipe out the Woolly Mammoth and then they have to the gall to use the noble elephant as their mascot. GRRRR!
I'm with you v1m. Republicans need to know that the war of words with Chavez doesn't fool us. Sequoia must not be allowed to engage in wholesale theft of our elections. Smart people like myself and v1m can see through their little charade.
D*mn them! D*mn them all to Hell!
God help us if we allow them to continue their killing ways. First the Republicans wipe out the Woolly Mammoth and then they have to the gall to use the noble elephant as their mascot. GRRRR!
Wow! I'm surprize that their lies is falling apart to even here. Don't even wonder about this. Be sure. infowars.com
"their lies is falling apart to even here"
1) Wonderful English my friend. Learn it in our top notch education system did you?
2) You assume he is a Republican, because he doesn't like Al Gore. Sorry to tell you, but a growing number of American's (like me) do not trust EITHER party anymore. I don't trust Al Gore any more that I do President Bush.
3) So let me get this strait... the Republicans control all these electronic voting machine companies and yet the Democrats won almost every important seat in the last election... including most of the close ones. I guess the Democrats learned the vulnerabilities and reprogrammed them first.
4) What no calls for a recount? The Republicans must have cheated. Oh yes, only where they did win right?
A pox on both your houses!