CalTech student Virgil Griffith is the creator of Wikipedia Scanner. A program that allows users to match Wikipedia edits with the IP addresses of those responsible, including major corporations. According to the article over at wired,

“On November 17th, 2005, an anonymous Wikipedia user deleted 15 paragraphs from an article on e-voting machine-vendor Diebold, excising an entire section critical of the company’s machines…In this case, the changes came from an IP address reserved for the corporate offices of Diebold itself.”

The Wired article was published on August, 14^th. Just yesterday on the 16^th, Diebold released a press release stating they are changing the name of their subsidiary Diebold Election Systems to Premier Election Solutions. Dave Byrd, President of Premier Election Solutions says,

“This is both a fresh identity for our company and a unique opportunity for us to concentrate our focus solely on providing best-in-class elections solutions for current and potential customers,”

Mr. Byrd, I’m afraid Diebold may need more than a “fresh identity”. The people of United States unfortunately must confide in voting machines to act as pillars for democracy. With this responsibility comes the expectation of complete honesty. Changing identities seems more like something an escape convict might do. Electronic voting is already known to be vulnerable to tampering. Do the American people and democracy a favor and kindly remove Diebold from the electronic voting business.

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