Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org and VoteTrustUSA.Org
Jefferson Co. Texas had so many problems with their ES&S voting machines in their primary that they have asked for the system to be fixed. They are withholding final payment until that happens. They also have a runoff election to hold and now ES&S is refusing to program their machines for that election until they get final payment. Typical ES&S service with a smile. In Utah Emery County election chief, Bruce Funk, is threatening to resign rather than use the counties Diebold machines. Meanwhile in Illinois the cry to not pay any further funds to Sequoia and the questions about their Venezuelan ownership are getting louder….
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Jefferson Co. Texas had so many problems with their ES&S voting machines in their primary that they have asked for the system to be fixed. They are withholding final payment until that happens. They also have a runoff election to hold and now ES&S is refusing to program their machines for that election until they get final payment. Typical ES&S service with a smile. In Utah Emery County election chief, Bruce Funk, is threatening to resign rather than use the counties Diebold machines. Meanwhile in Illinois the cry to not pay any further funds to Sequoia and the questions about their Venezuelan ownership are getting louder….
Dear Newly-awakened and disenfranchised voters,
As we say down here in the Lone Star State, "It’s About Damn Time!" I am very amused that this Supreme Court Justice wants to litigate this election. Maybe we will all be treated to the irony of someone finding out that the machine was rigged for him, but failed to work properly.
Somehow, the notion of an incompetently-rigged machine doesn’t seem impossible with this group of Yayhoos. What I want to know, more than anything, is how cerebrally-challenged folks like Dumbya, Double-barreled Dick and their retinue got into power at all. When you realize that Scalia (yep, the SAME), Rumsfeld, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Bremmer and many many more in this crowd were members of the Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Bush I White Houses, it boggles the mind.
Nixon may have been paranoid and power-crazed, but he was a good student throughout his academic career and he was a very smart man. Cheney got gentleman "Cs" as did Dumbya. Rumsfeld, I don’t know about, but the only stellar performers in school were Condi and Wolfowitz. The rest of them were mediocre at best. So how did they get these great jobs? Who did they have to, uh, well, party with, to get there? They did not get those jobs on merit.
It’s embarassing to be tricked by crooks that are as incompetent as this group. They’ve been caught with every misdeed: Abu Ghraiv, Reditions, Corruption, etc. yet nobody is willing to take them on. I guess ol’ Steve is going to find out what most of us already know…with this gang, you don’t always get delivery of what you paid for….sometimes, they forget to load the truck.
At this point, I don’t care that Steve got stiffed, but I am all excited about the idea of getting this mess out in the open once and for all. Maybe that will wake the rest of the country UP!!!!!!!!!
Gina de Miranda
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Dear Bruce Funk:
THANK YOU for sticking to your guns. I know you are in a pressure cooker right now, with the heat rising, but this is apparently the sort of confrontation it takes these days to get through to some of the complicit, careless, and cavalier state election officials.
The techies at slashdot.com are on your side. The most experienced software people KNOW that paper and pen and hand counting are the only way to vote and count votes. Otherwise the universe of people who know, and can audit, how our votes are counted shrinks to a few insiders, and those privileged few come at a high price; TOO high a price for our democracy.
You WILL be vindicated in the end, and be able to educate others. Hang in there, and keep using the full power of your office to do right by the voters of Emery County.