Do you trust electronic ballot boxes? Should you?

Diebold source code leaked again Another breach on the e-voting front as elections near Robert McMillan October 21, 2006 (IDG News Service) -- Source code to Diebold Election Systems Inc. voting machines has been leaked once again.

On Wednesday, former Maryland state legislator Cheryl C. Kagan was anonymously given disks containing source code to Diebold's BallotStation and GEMS (Global Election Management System) tabulation software used in the 2004 elections. Kagan, a well-known critic of electronic voting, is Executive Director of the Carl M. Freeman Foundation, a philanthropic organization based in Olney, Maryland. (ComputerWorld)

What is probably more jaw dropping is this quote from the Maryland Board of Elections:

The leak comes with just three weeks before elections in the U.S., but Maryland Board of Elections Deputy Administrator Ross Goldstein expressed confidence in the Diebold voting machines. The leaked code was "not software that's in use in this election," he said. "The software now is different and has many more security features."

At the risk of sounding cynical, would Mr. Goldstein please tell me and the other voters of Maryland that are about to use these machines who has said the software is different and has many more security features? Someone other than Diebold? Because if there is no one else, it is simply their word and right at the moment, Diebold is not exactly arguing from a position of credulity. The election is three weeks away. Do you trust that you vote will be counted, counted accurately and for the candidate that you selected?