I know we haven’t been talking much about the dangers of touch-screen voting lately, but I thought that you might find this little blurb from MIT Technology Review of interest:
According to new documents obtained by the Electronic Privacy Information Center, Diebold mislead state voting officials, claiming that its electronic voting machines would last 20 years. An independent laboratory report said that they will probably only last 8.
So, not only was the Ohio-based manufacturer of electronic voting machines contributing substantial amounts to Republican campaigns, and lobbying hard to keep from having to produce auditable paper trails of the actual votes cast on their machines, but they also apparently lied in order to get their machines sold and in use…
So, just to recap, they aren’t impartial, and they aren’t trustworthy, but yet they’ve been given the responsibility for counting an extremely large percentage of American votes… It makes perfect sense, doesn’t it?
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you say trial…I say trail
let’s call the whole thing ______.
It is rather scary when you think about it
I think I can safely say, without any fear of contradiction, that we’re all a bunch of assholes for not doing more to keep the subject of touch-screen voting in front of people.
Unfortunately by the time we get pissed about it again it’ll be a few weeks bafore the election and it’ll be too late to do anything.
Although it’s likely to send you scurrying for your tin foil hat, I’m sure you’ll be interested in this:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001838.htm
Oh, goody… I didn’t have enough to worry about already… I can’t wait to see what this is.