I mentioned in a recent post that in talking to a Diebold rep at last month’s VoComp he stated to me that their voting machines store ballots in memory in random order. I had indicated my skepticism to him at the time.

Now I read that in fact the Diebold AccuVote-TSX actually does “record votes in the order in which they are cast, and (it) records the time that each vote is cast.”

I will give the gentleman the benefit of the doubt that he was misinformed.

Alternatively in a cryptographic voting system such as Punchscan, the thing that records your vote only ever sees an encrypted version. So it doesn’t matter if they get stored in order.

UPDATE: Looks like we weren’t the only ones they were telling that lie too.

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