David Bear, a spokesman for Diebold Election Systems, said the potential risk existed because the company’s technicians had intentionally built the machines in such a way that election officials would be able to update their systems in years ahead.
“For there to be a problem here, you’re basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software,” he said. “I don’t believe these evil elections people exist.”
That's almost like saying GM stopped putting air bags in their cars because they believe there will no longer be any car crashes.
Diebold has been trying to down-play the security flaws in their voting machines in spite of everyone who has examined the system and reporting just how serious the security hole is.
Mr. Bear, here's a penny for the clue your company needs to buy. It is your job to make those assumptions to insure the integrity of the system.
