[angel12]

[Diebold CEO Wally] O'Dell attended a strategy pow-wow with wealthy Bush benefactors - known as Rangers and Pioneers - at the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch earlier this month.

[GraniteStateConservative]

I trust Ken Blackwell. DUers may not.

[Bubba_Leroy]

That's right, only companies controlled by democRATs should ever be allowed to count votes. [/sarchasm]

[MJY1288]

The democrats are really grasping for straws now. I would bet that there are people in that company who support one of the "Nine Nattering Nabobs", that's just the way it is. Not to mention...... the machines do the counting, not the CEO.

My hope is that these new machines will put an end to all those votes for democrats, from the occupants of the cemetaries across this country.

[lelio]

I'm more scared as Diebold's engineering staff sounds like a bunch of clowns. An MS Access database on Windows 98? Are they asking to be hacked into?

[deport]

Who you working for?

[witnesstothefall]

Hubris alert. Please God, don't punish Bush for the sins of his constituents.

[Commiewatcher]

"O'Dell attended a strategy pow-wow with wealthy Bush benefactors - known as Rangers and Pioneers - at the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch earlier this month."

Legal AMERICAN money from legal AMERICAN donors. I know that sounds strange to democRATS used to getting their money from communist China.

[chance33_98]

I always wondered how Clinton won twice...

[aculeus]

1. Poster joined yesterday.

2. Created slimy headline.

3. Puts minor story in "breaking news"

Students, connect the dots!

[deport]

http://www.cleveland.com/politics/index.ssf?/base/ispol/106207393874610.xml

Why you change the headline?

Voting machine controversy

08/28/03

Julie Carr Smyth
Plain Dealer Bureau

[Tamzee]

Submitting the thread for review by the Viking Kitties

angel12 - since Aug 28, 2003

[Tamzee]

bzzzzzzt...

[Lael]

Ohio 's a Lock for Bush 2004

NOWHERE does Bush have a lock!!

[chance33_98]

Gets interesting when you read other articles written by Julie Carr Smyth...

[Tamzee]

Are you familiar with a Bev Harris, perchance?

Thanks.

[chance33_98]

SO then - why not give us your take on it?

[citizenx7]

The potential for fraud with electronic voting systems is unacceptable, unless there is a verifiable audit trail, using paper. Unfortunately, the systems don't have that! And furthermore, groups like the League of Women Voters don't think it is necessary!

The website that is keeping up with this issue is:
www.blackboxvoting.com . Here is a excerpt from that site:

"According to Dr. David Dill of Stanford, formal questions were posed to Wyle and Ciber about what is done to test these machines, but both declined to answer.

Dr. Dill’s statement on electronic voting has gained the endorsement of several hundred computer scientists who agreed, even before the problems were found in the Diebold system, that electronic voting is inherently unsafe. “Computerized voting equipment is inherently subject to programming error, equipment malfunction, and malicious tampering. It is therefore crucial that voting equipment provide a voter-verifiable audit trail, by which we mean a permanent record of each vote that can be checked for accuracy by the voter before the vote is submitted, and is difficult or impossible to alter after it has been checked. Many of the electronic voting machines being purchased do not satisfy this requirement. Voting machines should not be purchased or used unless they provide a voter-verifiable audit trail; when such machines are already in use, they should be replaced or modified to provide a voter-verifiable audit trail. Providing a voter-verifiable audit trail should be one of the essential requirements for certification of new voting systems."