Four-year-old Diebold glitch silently drops votes
Found on The Register on Monday, 08 December 2008
A four-year-old software glitch wiped out almost 200 votes from a small California county's November elections tally, causing officials to certify results that are now known to be incorrect.
The error only came to light after a volunteer outfit using open-source software and an off-the-shelf paper scanner audited the results.
A bug in Diebold's software is a hyperbug (like hyperparsites) since the software itself is a bug already. Oh, and of course I meant Premier when I said Diebold. You didn't think renaming the company makes all the bad reputation and catastrophic failures magically go away, did you? Plus, it's funny that an open-source solution and a cheap scanner owned such an expensive piece of trash.