Commentary: Hanging chads were better than this

[kster]

California Focus By
Tom Elias

There's no longer any doubt about it: Hanging chads were far, far better than what could ensue if California Secretary of State Bruce McPherson this spring certifies the two most common brands of electronic voting machines for use in this year's elections and many more to come.

snip.... Also known is that O'Dell resigned from Diebold in December, just days before a securities fraud action in an Ohio federal court charged that the company's "false and misleading statements served to conceal the dimensions and scope of internal problems at the company impacting product quality…"

Will McPherson consider all these factors in his now-delayed decision on whether Diebold machines can be used in California? When queried, he did not respond.

And why did he delay for six weeks disclosing there were also problems with ES&S machines in the November special election? No answer to that one, either.



http://www.ridgecrestca.com/articles/2006/01/06/news/columnists/colo01.txt

[FogerRox]

1. yes -- chads --hmm the good old days-- LOL K n R

[Stevepol]

2. K&R!!

[bonito]

3. And another kick here!

[autorank]

4. Diebold.....it's da machines, it's da machines...

They need to go far away from all voting areas, along with ESS, Sequoia and the other filters and leeches on our democracy.

[FogerRox]

5. come on one more recommendation

[O.M.B.inOhio]

9. self-delete

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[kster]

7. Didn't get the message PM me.

[nicknameless]

8. I keep wondering if anyone else is going to file a 19202 Request to test

these machines. THAT is the most helpful way to make machine problems public, as we saw in Leon County.

McPherson is required by state law to comply with those requests.
Right now he's in violation of BBV.org's request from last June -- ie: HE'S BREAKING THE LAW!

If these tests were conducted, the vote-stealing devices' problems would become public knowledge, then he couldn't certify them.