Now these new machines that the Democrats demanded are a Republican conspiracy? Feh! Yeah. It's an idiotic charge, but it's based on the usual genius left-wing analysis: the head or CEO or whatever of Diebold is a (R) (or so I hear? i really have no idea..), and so, therefore, Diebold is going to cheat in favor of the (R)s.
It's the same argument, essentially, that they use to "prove" that there's no left-wing bias in the media ("Peter Jennings works for a corporation, and corporations are inherently conservative, thus there can't be left-wing bias..."). Pure genius.
your missing the point. The point is...it only takes one rogue programmer. I have seen Diebold and Sequoia's systems hacked. All it takes is one person to change a million votes, and you would never know.
http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1689859&nav=0Ra6LJ1G March 4, 2004
Johnson County: Election Worker Fired
Doug Orange
By Rick Dawson
I-Team 8
Election officials in Johnson County are now demanding answers from a voting machine company at the heart of a recent I-Team investigation.
I-Team 8 has been asking "Will Your Vote Count?" Now with the primary just two months away, we’ve uncovered a new wrinkle as a respected election worker is abruptly dismissed.Doug Orange had his contract with Election Systems and Software terminated last week. As the ES&S Project manager, Orange helped the county set up new touch-screen voting systems. County clerk Jill Jackson was very happy with his work.
So why was Orange fired? He says the company claimed insubordination, but he says he was just doing the right thing. “I was asked by Wil Wesley, as my immediate supervisor, to implement a procedure in Johnson County that I personally felt was attacking the integrity of the future election and the security of the future elections in Johnson County. Not to mention that I felt those procedures were illegal,” said Orange.Bound by a non-disclosure statement, Orange won't elaborate further. But county election officials already had concerns about unapproved and illegal ES&S software inadvertently used in the last election.
“We are concerned that we have the election conducted in a first class way. And we've had some changes with ES&S that have brought some concern for the board,” said J. Bryan Nichol, Johnson County Election Board.
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“I was replaced as project manager eight weeks before a primary election, with a new clerk who's just been elected to office, with a new voting system that is under fire,” said Orange, who calls the task impossible. He added, "The unfortunate result of this is that I feel as though Johnson County and Johnson County's future elections are at risk."
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Will Your Vote Count? Read I-Team 8's investigation into problems with electronic voting machines.