Unnamed Diebold Spokesliar Says Touch-Screen Vote Flipping 'Not a Problem, Doesn't Exist,' Unnamed Sequoia Spokesliar Says It's a 'Conspiracy Theory from Activists and Bloggers'
By Brad Friedman on 11/13/2006, 7:59pm PT  

Despite massive problems with their voting machines all over the country, at least two of the leading voting machine companies, Sequoia and Diebold, are still in extreme denial. But at least they have the "courage" to keep their names off record when talking to the press about it now...Cowards.

Witness the last two grafs of this ComputerWorld story on touch-screen vote-flipping --- the type that was reported all over the country both in Early Voting and on Election Day this year, and certainly in a big way back in '04...

E-voting machines are far more secure, accurate and auditable than the mechanical lever-operated voting machines and other systems they replaced, the [unnamed] spokeswoman [from Sequoia] contended. She called vote-flipping concerns a "conspiracy theory from activists and bloggers."

A spokesman at e-voting equipment vendor Diebold Election Systems also said that e-voting machines don't cause vote flipping. "It's not a problem," he said. "It doesn't exist. This again falls into the 'what if' scenario."

It's not a problem. It doesn't exist. These aren't the droids you're looking for.

So not only are these guys liars, they're now cowards afraid to go on record with their names when spreading their utter bullshit.

By the way, one of those "conspiracy theory activist bloggers" who had the "non-existant" "non-problem" was Marshall Cook, a candidate for city council in Pinellas Park, Florida, last March. He kept trying to vote for himself, but his vote kept flipping to his opponent until he was finally forced to move to a different crappy Sequoia touch-screen voting machine.

As we reported at the time, quoting from that "activist blog" otherwise known as the St. Petersburg Times(!)...

[O]n Election Day...when Cook tried to vote for himself, the machine defaulted to a vote for [his opponent] Taylor. A precinct worker finally moved Cook to a different booth.

Idiots.

                 

Article Categories: Diebold/Premier, Election Irregularities, Sequoia Voting Systems, Touch-Screen Vote Flipping