Guest Blogged by John Gideon
The Chicago Tribune is reporting that the city of Chicago Board of Elections Commissioners has decided that they may hold back payment on their new voting machines because they are afraid of ‘potential glitches.’
Cook County’s election board, a separate entity, will not be paying their portion of the $26M still owed to Sequoia until after the election in two weeks. Now the city has openly voted, at least for now, to see what happens in the election before they make a decision to make their final payment.
The guinea pig voters may end up giving up their democracy in the bargain, but at least they may save a few dollars!
Sequoia’s president, Jack Blaine, told the paper that he felt the company had done all they could and that they deserved to be paid. As the Trib reports…
Officials also questioned Sequoia about problems some early voters experienced when they inserted a key card into touch-screen machines. Officials said the machines gave error messages in some cases when voters inserted the cards incorrectly. In other cases, the cards created errors if an election worker or voter smudged them with greasy fingers.
No wonder the city wants to wait. In fact one needs to ask why the city is even planning to use these machines. The system has never been used in any election previously, a fact that seems to have escaped the Trib just as it has the rest of the local MSM.
The voting system to be used in Chicago and Cook County has just gone through federal Independent Test Authority testing and was only recently certified for use by the state of Illinois. Now we hear that voters are having problems with key cards. I guess a new part of Sequoia’s voting system should be a “Handi-Wipe” dispenser.
But the real question is and should be; what about the voters?
City and county officials may have saved themselves from paying for a system that doesn’t work but the voters are being asked to ‘beta test’ that system in a live election — with billioins of dollars on the line — and problems with the system will be lost votes and democracy lost. Again.
This article lays it all out for you. With “Truthisall” & Palast statistics/funny-business inserted, you can see where the fraud is going to happen.
Potential Election Fraud And Certain Confusion At Polls Threaten Public Will
By Michael Collins and TruthIsAll
Scoop Independent News
Washington, DC
3 guesses which party will prevail on these systems, in the upcoming election…..
i will be a judge in chicago. i attended the training. i will let you know how it went in my precinct.
we were told that sequioa owner jack blaine will be in town to make sure everything goes well.
and to the comment upthread mentioning party, in illinois, the crooks are pretty 50/50.
This is one dangerous election coming up. I sure hope God blesses America. The only thing these machines don’t have is an exploding gas tank.
What I want to know is, what is so sacrosanct about Nov. 7th? How dare the true peoples voice in America be left to a mere deadline! Where is the common sense during this NATIONAL CRISIS! Every legislator and law-maker should join together in view of all the evidence throughout this country as to the irrefutable corruption of our election system and be forced back into emergency session to do the right thing. I don’t know about you but I’ll take patience over instant gradification any day. In 2-4 weeks the real solution for just this election, emergency paper ballots could be printed. Also a letter to each and every registered voter could be sent out letting them know if they are still registered, and where their precinct is. Hell, why not make Election Day a national holiday! Any law-maker who can’t admit to this CRISIS is a disgrace to AMERICAN LIBERTY AND JUSTICE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then when the balance of power shifts back to WE THE PEOPLE, true independent studies by qualified experts(that are not paid by the vending machine companies)should be done to allow us to get our money back from these ABOMINATIONS.
It just makes much more sense to stop these problems NOW instead of wasting more time and treasure in law suits after the fact or letting Congress or the Supreme Court step in to pick the winners.
Ancient # 5
Well said..!!
There are lots of people running the show who are a disgrace to your country and SHOULD get the boot ASAP starting with the top dog and working all the way down from there..!
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