They've done hack tests now in Florida and proven the Diebold Gem systems are hackable.
Most analysts think investors should stand pat on Diebold, with three of five analysts rating it hold.
Diebold also issued a press release outing Rubin as an adviser to an Internet election technology company, VoteHere.
Diebold, a 144-year-old Ohio maker of bank safes, will spend thousands of dollars translating the guidelines into 13 languages.
Diebold countered that the code was out of date and out of context.
After seven years working in regional sales in Southern California for Diebold Inc.
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Another company where purging of Wikipedia information occurred is Diebold (nyse: DBD - news - people ).
And they're hammering these states to make the change, even when Diebold is totally reticent to provide printers for these machines.
Diebold (nyse: DBD - news - people ) voting machines, which have since been rebranded as Premier Election Solutions.
Rubin released a paper criticizing computer code discovered on the Internet that was an excerpt of the programming in Diebold's touch-screen machines.
When workers ring a toll-free hot line, Diebold will have to decide whether to follow up or face a gaping legal liability.
Rewards for a stock-price decline "should be balanced against the potential misalignment with shareholder value, " Diebold said in its latest proxy statement.
Diebold, a 144-year-old Ohio maker of bank safes and automated teller machines, will spend thousands of dollars translating the guidelines into 13 languages.
But that research resulted in widespread scrutiny of electronic voting around the country, and Diebold machines were decertified for use in many states.
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Lauer said UTC's proposal is an opportunistic attempt to buy Diebold at a time when shareholders don't have sufficient data to evaluate the offer.
That study was followed up in 2006 by researchers at Princeton who found that a Diebold machine could be hacked in less than a minute.
"They're suggesting something magically happens between what you see on the screen and what's stored in the machine, "says Thomas Swidarski, president of Diebold Election Systems.
"The board strongly believes UTC's proposal significantly undervalues the company and fails to reflect Diebold's strengths and significant upside potential, " said Diebold Chairman John Lauer .
On the sell side, the M100 checked out of Diebold (nyse: DBD - news - people ), which makes automated teller and voting machines.
On the earnings front, Diebold (DBD), Drew Industries (DW), Rackspace (RAX), Regal Entertainment ( RGC), and Tal International (TAL) are slated to release their quarterly reports.
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Another company where purging of Wikipedia information occurred is Diebold.
The highlight of the day, though, has nothing to do with shoddy equipment and everything to do with a crazy voter who attacked a Diebold-brand machine in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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As early as 2002, researchers at Johns Hopkins and Rice University analyzed the source code of the widely used Diebold voting machines, which have since been rebranded as Premier Election Solutions.
Neither Raytheon nor Diebold immediately returned requests for comment.
In Diebold's case, like many others, his 401(k) plan appears to be contractually on the hook for any decline in the value of collateral received in exchange for the securities it lent out.
The committee's action follows its recommendation last week to ban the use of 15, 000 Diebold Elections Systems voting machines in four counties, citing security concerns, malfunctions in the March election and Diebold's last-minute changes to its machines just before the election.
But in cases where researchers notify companies and offer to cooperate in order to solve security problems, a smarter approach to fixing those flaws has largely prevailed: Ed Felten, for instance, a Princeton researcher, faced legal threats in 2003 when he and colleagues exposed security vulnerabilities in Diebold voting machines.
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The New York Times is reporting that polling places across the country are experiencing difficulties with their voting equipment, and while we'd love to place the blame squarely on shady manufacturers like Diebold, Sequoia, and friends, it seems that the complications are actually due to human error as much as faulty hardware.
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