"Every voter in every local jurisdiction that uses the AccuVote-TS should feel secure knowing that their vote will count on Election Day,"says Dave Byrd, president of Diebold Election Systems, protesting that 18 screws (!) and "numbered security tags" (or maybe that's one screw and 17 numbered security tags, hard to tell, whatever, doesn't really matter anyway) were destroyed in the Princeton research on the HackaVote we mentioned a while back. Woohoo! Eighteen!
But that's not the point, or the question either. Why is it so many so-called "conservatives," the ones who are constantly bellyaching about a "nanny state," seem perfectly comfortable with "trust us, we will count the votes for you"? That's the question. And the point is, only Diebold knows for sure how the software works. Diebold and some "certifying" service somewhere that Diebold pays. Only Dieblold knows how the votes really get counted.
Which is exactly Diebold's defense here, namely trust us, those researchers weren't working with the latest version of the software, only we know how that works and - did I mention "trust us"? - we're telling you it's safe.
The 18 screws are just there for decoration.
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