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Interesting article in the November 13 issue of Fortune on electronic voting, and the Diebold company.
I didn't know much about Diebold. They are a 147 year old, $2.6 billion/yr company. They were once headed by Eliot Ness. Their prime business is banking, things like ATMs and bank vaults.
Looks at the other methods of voting, and the ways that all methods can (and have been) cheated in the past (paper ballots used since the 1700s, lever machines in the 1800s, punch cards, optical scans, etc. are all easy to tamper with and have been tampered with.)
Here's an interesting quote from the article: "There has not been a single confirmed instance of vote tampering with a Diebold machine - or any other electronic machine."
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