The Security Mentor

The problems found in an audit of Diebold voting machines in Cuyahoga County, Ohio sound more like the result of poor design than of anything more sinister. Though it's really poor design, since the machines use a database back end that Microsoft explicitly says not to use in an environment where a lot of simultaneous changes are happening.

Still, Diebold's reported attitude is inexcusable:

Election Director Michael Vu initially denied the audit team access to the raw vote data to examine because he said Diebold had asserted trade secrets protection over the data. By vote data, they're referring to the vote totals and election reports, not the machine source code.

Claiming that election results are a trade secret is an outrage.