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After the 2000 hanging chads, Sen Chris Dodd,D-CT pushed through Congress and Bush signed HAVA-Help America Vote Act with funding. Although Republicans had the President and both houses of Congress, Friends-of-Dodd controlled HAVA and spending of HAVA money... and continue to control it through the present when we again have the President and both houses of Congress.

Michael R McCarthy owns ESS that got the HAVA money to sell his stuff to Republican Election Boards. McCarthy donates 95% D, especially Act Blue, and 5% R (Ayotte and others I never heard of). Soros owns other companies that get HAVA money for stuff they sell to Republican Election Boards. A CT friend and donor of Sen Dodd exclaimed "It's as if HAVA was written specifically for me." He also sells (mostly software) to Republican election officals.

And we wonder who controls our elections? Republican Secretarys of State and County Election Boards are just thrilled to get FREE money that they don't have to go begging to the legislature and be accountable to the legislature. FREE money. What could go wrong?

1 posted on 03/22/2017 5:15:45 PM PDT by spintreebob

I still have files on zip disks. For awhile dell sold desktops with optional zip drives.

2 posted on 03/22/2017 5:18:54 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)

I remember the “click of death”

3 posted on 03/22/2017 5:20:53 PM PDT by GraceG (Only a fool works hard in an environment where hard work is not appreciated...)

It’s a bit unnerving that some of our election results may be subject to “The click of death”.

4 posted on 03/22/2017 5:22:49 PM PDT by Nik Naym (It's not my fault... I have compulsive smart-ass disorder.)

My precinct uses these:

6 posted on 03/22/2017 5:25:43 PM PDT by Rastus

Vindication for Jill Stein, who thought voting machines could be hacked with a floppy disk?

7 posted on 03/22/2017 5:28:59 PM PDT by x

For a brief period of time, this was state of the art for portable storage.

9 posted on 03/22/2017 5:30:46 PM PDT by SamAdams76

I still have the original blue clunker that plugged into a parallel printer port. If you used the drive while printing to an early inkjet, you'd get some wild colors, man

10 posted on 03/22/2017 5:31:45 PM PDT by varyouga

I had three zip discs with all my work on them. One work and two backups. The click of death killed them all. I never used zip discs again.

13 posted on 03/22/2017 5:36:21 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (2 Chronicles 7:14)

Before Zip there was the Bernoulli disk.

http://www.obsoletemedia.org/bernoulli-disk/

Unlike the Zip disk, these were very reliable.

24 posted on 03/22/2017 6:13:32 PM PDT by Fresh Wind (Hillary: Go to jail. Go directly to jail. Do not pass GO. Do not collect 2 billion dollars.)

Used them throughout college. Never had a problem with them. Even had the blue LPT port portable machine. It was a great feeling tossing out all the old 3 1/2 floppies with my assignments and engineering drawings.

Joke’s on me though. I still have CNC machines and inspection CMMs that use 3 1/2 floppies.

28 posted on 03/22/2017 6:34:16 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Flinging poo is not a valid argument)

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