Voting Machine Controversy (Ohio)

[sybylla]

http://www.cleveland.com/election/index.ssf?/base/news/106207171078040.xml

Columbus - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election.

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. The next week, he penned invitations to a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser to benefit the Ohio Republican Party's federal campaign fund - partially benefiting Bush - at his mansion in the Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington.

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drip, drip, drip

The balls these people have. I cannot believe they think us so ignorant.

edited to add link, sorry.

[goobergunch]

1. Gee, I wonder how they're going to deliver those votes. </sarcasm>

Go Ohio Dems...block Diebold!

[NJCher]

2. the corruption of the system is mind boggling

I swear, just when I think it can't get any more pathetic.


Cher

[Hell Hath No Fury]

3. Jeeeezussss Crimeny...

All I can say is

:wow:

I mean, short of standing in Times Square wearing a placard saying "I run a voting machine company and I'm gonna steal this sucker for my man Bush", can you GET any obvious then these pricks?

[hang a left]

4. In-effing-credible!!!!!!!!!!!!

They are just in your face, challenging you to stop them.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

5. Kick. BEV HARRIS! Stop These Vultures!

It seems that nobody in power feels the need to even pretend they have anyone else's interests in mind.

[blm]

6. WOW.....

Glad to see this out.

Ohio is a great bellweather state. If we can unlock the GOP connected crimes there we can really expose the whole can of worms.

[mndemocrat_29]

7. This is insane

Will the Repukes stop at nothing to win? I'm sure if this doesn't work, they'll try and eliminate elections all together.

BEV HARRIS, WE SUPPORT YOU!

[farmbo]

8. Someone needs to issue the "Hacker Challenge" to Ohio's Sec of State

Blackwell's getting a free pass from the Columbus Dispatch newspaper, on his voting machine scheme.

The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal and Dayton Daily News are itching to run with the story, but, at present, its a computer geek story... everyone's eyes (including the Reporter's) would glaze over with the details.

Bev Harris' people (DemActivist?) issued a "Hacker's Challenge" in Georgia: "Give us access to a touch screen machine and we'll hack into it". Georgia officials have been back pedalling and hand-wringing ever since.

Won't someone (qualified) issue a similar challenge to Ohio officials?

Between DUers and ODP, we can turn out big crowds in front of the state office bldg to publicize their refusal.

[ewagner]

9. Maybe

we could raise enough money here to send DEMACTIVIST, BevHarris, and at least one of the other experts to Ohio if we can mount a challenge.

What do you think?

[farmbo]

11. I'll pay for their plane tickets!

(sorry, Tourist class)

No kidding!

[cayanne]

23. count me in for the donations

I can't send a lot but I can send $50. We all have to keep fighting to save our representative democracy any way we can. Let me know where to send the money.

[gristy]

37. Let's see how the GA challenge plays out first

Any "hacker challenge" is fraught with danger IMO. And it can not even address the "insider fraud" angle.

[hunter]

10. This is more than drip, drip, drip...

Walden O'Dell is General Custer heading out for Little Big Horn...

[Ouabache]

12. kick for AWD who is running for Congress in Youngstown I believe.

AngryWhiteDem ?!?

:kick: for you

[AWD]

31. Canton, Ohio

...4 miles from Diebold HQ.

Check back later today for a little treat.

[goobergunch]

36. note: Youngstown is OH-17 (Tim Ryan (D)) (n/t)

[InkAddict]

17. Um, I think Tecumseh is the patron

Indian Chief of Ohio

http://www.jmu.edu/madison/tecumseh/tecumsehsdeath.htm

[hunter]

20. Oh my God, Johnny...

...they're turkeys!! Johnny, can you get this? Oh, they're plunging to the earth right in front of our eyes! One just went through the windshield of a parked car! Oh, the humanity! The turkeys are hitting the ground like sacks of wet cement! Not since the Hindenberg tragedy has there been anything like this!

I'm not sure why I thought that was appropriate. Maybe because those Diebold voting machines and the guys who push them are turkeys.

[xJlM]

32. Tecumseh was a warrior

He didn't believe in the common practices of the time, such as the torture of prisoners, and he had incredible vision of the white man and what he would do to the native peoples, but he wasn't a chief. He was a warrior who led, and chiefs gladly followed him.

[Robbien]

13. Let's smother Ohio media with letters letting them know it is not just

a geek thing. Lets let them know we are interested in this. Write one email and use Congress.org to send out mass emails. To make it a little easy, the following are three links under Congress.org for the state of Ohio. Each link will send five individual emails each. Each media recipient believes it is getting an original individual email. Use all three links. On each, pick five newspapers, click compose, paste your message and send it off. Let's see if we can make a difference!

Cleveland area link

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/?command=zipresult&azip=44106&submit.x=13&submit.y=11

Columbus area link

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/?command=zipresult&azip=43205&submit.x=16&submit.y=9

All State of Ohio link

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/dbq/media/?command=state_search&state=OH&submit.x=14&submit.y=16

[InkAddict]

18. Done -

Thanks for making it so easy!

Dear Editor: As a concerned citizen, I urge you to investigate how this Ohio corporation's security-flawed product may influence the future of Ohioans and America. Furthermore, citizens of Ohio should be informed about issues regarding allegations of "conflict of interest" and heavy-handed political influencing that may jeopardize the security of our voting process. Ohioans deserve resources on these newsworthy issues. Your publication can claim a place in resisting instances of voter-machine fraud and help voters make informed decisions. I look forward to seeing your call for a fair and balanced public challenge to Diebold.

[Robbien]

21. Getting down to the end of all possible media lists.

So far eighty emails sent. Going to get them all before going to sleep.

You have a good email InkAddict. Research is my game, words are a little iffy. My emails are not as good, but quantity has to count for something.

[peacetalksforall]

14. Blatant baxxs of bingos.

Unholy preposterous indefensible fireballs.

He wins the prize of the 2003 for idiocy.

There is not even a brush with lies here.

If he goes down, does Diebold go down?

Utterly unbelievable.

I can just see him with a poster of Bush in his jail cell.

[alfredo]

15. Kick

this is crazy! He admits it!

[Eloriel]

16. Totally delicious

It just goes to show, the logical conclusion of unmitigated arrogance is rampant stupidity.

You can see it in the Bush administration all over the place too.

Eloriel

[NIGHT TRIPPER]

19. Just a plain simple conflict of interest

If the Diebold head exec. were contributing to the Dems we'd hear all about it EVERYWHERE on every station and in every newspaper.

A voting machine company that has direct affiliation with
any particular political party is a MAJOR confilct of interest.

No rocket science here.

Denial is the issue.

Anyone who doesn't see it just doesn't want to see it...probably because they support the Neoconvicts.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

22. The Thousand Year Reich is upon us all

I get the horrible feeling Clinton was the last non-Republican US president. Ever.

Won't you people REVOLT or something? These things are headline material! Nay, they're AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL material!

[FubarFly]

24. Unf*ckingbelievable

I am too angry to think right now.

:kick:

[0007]

41. Is this the bending end?

It sure appears the people have lost their voice.

[JohnOneillsMemory]

25. KICK. This is what the end of democracy looks like. n/t

[Room101]

26. Email this to the producer of Democracy now at ......

[e-mail] -Urge them do run this story!

[Dover]

27. Well we MUST be "ignorant" because we continue to let them run

rampant over this country, steal from us, murder us, take away our rights, manipulate our votes and force us into battles we don't want to participate in.

Of course they think they are omnipotent!

Afterall, this is the country that actually BELIEVED that pretzel story! How pathetic is that!

[cthrumatrix]

28. This crap has to stop.... votes are all we have left to stop this carnage.

Bev Harris .... you are a savior.

[peabody71]

29. kick it.

[Patriot_Spear]

30. Here's something you can do...

Email this quote to the Secretary of State for your state.

Make it clear that a quote like this from the CEO of an election equipment company rasies a red flag about the veracity of the system.

That's what I did and I was contacted by my Sec of State / elections board office in less than two hours.

[leftchick]

33. Email Your SoS NOW!

Great Idea PS... I just sent my letter off to Elaine Marshal in NC. She has not answered my last, maybe this will get her attention.
For everyone, here is the link to proud patriot's thread in activism


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=106&topic_id=875

Every link you will need is right there!! Let's get moving!! :bounce:

[leftchick]

34. kick

:kick:

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

35. kick

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[VolcanoJen]

38. Kick!!!

:dem:

[grasswire]

39. that's what Jeb said in 2000

He promised to deliver Florida for W.

Be sure to write to this reporter at the Plain Dealer to let her know that people across the country are interested in the story.

[e-mail]

[shirlden]

40. Keep kicking

n/t