Some of you have been on this site for over a decade.

[Kelvin Mace]

249. The war isn't over

but people are keeping a close eye on the touchscreen machines and it seems every cycle some nasty failure heralds the junking of another set in favor of paper. These days its more a clean up operation, stamping out little pockets of resistance.

The "conspiracy" angle was always a problem and the voting machine companies tried to play that up against us. I caught hell on a number of occasions as I was one of the activists who managed to get onto a select committee in NC. People would want me to spout of on the "obvious vote rigging" but I refused. I explained to them that you have to stick with what you could prove, stick with the facts. What we could prove was that Diebold had lied over and over again and that the machines were child's play to tamper with.

In the end, Diebold's voting machine division, bought in 1999 for $200+ million if memory serves, was sold off for $15 million.

The major problem these days is voter suppression. Some of my tinfoil acquaintances enjoy pointing out that after we discredited paperless voting, the Right shifted to voter suppression. Actually, the Right was using that tactic all along and just found more creative ways and money to expand on it. It is a far "safer" tactic to use than screwing with a voting machine.