More election shenanigans in Sunshine State

[kster]

SNIP...Ion Sancho offended the election machine triopoly last year when he brought in computer security experts who demonstrated how an insider could hack Leon's Diebold voting machines, alter the outcome of an election and then wipe out all signs of tampering.

Diebold cut him off like a betrayed lover. ES&S canceled his order for touch-screen machines, claiming that the company was just too busy to supply Leon County. (Oddly, an ES&S official assured Maryland's election administrator in February that the company could outfit the entire state with new machines.)

Then, after weeks of avoiding Sancho's phone calls, Sequoia reneged on a verbal agreement to sell him machines. (That may have been a blessing in disguise for Sancho, given that election officials in Cook County, Ill., spent last week trying to coax the results of Tuesday's election from their brand-new Sequoias.)

The reverse boycott left Leon County unable to meet a deadline set by federal law requiring at least one voting machine in each precinct be outfitted for disabled voters.


http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/14181959.htm