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…
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(!)…
Idiots.
…but it didn’t change the outcome.
yea right
Were you standing there when it flipped the vote ?
No.
Then it did not happen, it never happens.
These machines are fail-proof, foolproof, and error-proof.
They function perfectly 100% of the time.
Obviously there is a problem with all these touch screen voting machines and it needs to be dealt with.Being a voter in Hawaii, I have never come across one of them and I am glad I haven’t.I believe in our free country that every vote NEEDS to be counted and if these machines are not doing the job of not counting even just ONE vote, they need to be destroyed so our democracy may remain “Fair and Balanced” Ha Ha.
If the Dems don’t push for public code and paper trails they’re no better then facists who will go full force with the theft of the 2008 election – I think the late returns (2:30am) from both VA and MO threw them for a loop this time.
In ALL other countries in the world that use e Voting they have in place:
1.) Certifiable Chain of Custody
2.) PUBLIC CODE
3.) High level of security on machine (unique keys)
4.) Paper receipt to generate hard accounting.
America, sure. We laugh in their face — but the jokes on us. Unless we meet basic standards this e Voting corruption will take this country down.
I am so tired of hearing these mealy mouthed facists jumping on the bloggers, etc. The TRUTH always does get them in a bitchy mood – their lives depend on the perpetration of lies.
Until the voting machine companies and the election warlords admit the problem, pop the denial bubble, and get with verifiable elections, they are advocating the institutionalization of denial, lies, deceit, and the downfall of our democracy.
Fraud is irrelevant. The regulation of voting machines and casino machines is not based upon proof of fraud, it is based upon a reasonable and strict standard, then whether or not those standards are met.
No sane observer says “not many banks are robbed by hacking, therefore security and accountability are not important on banking machines”.
Does anybody have a video of a vote-flip which they’d care to put on the net? At least with that available to the public the allegation would be irrefutable.
Two Words for the UN-NAMED mouthpieces of the electronic election machine manufacture[s] e.g. ALL MANUFACTURES of electronic voting machines.
word #1 Begins with F has four letters
word #2 Begins with Y has three letters
I voted by mail, in the WA-08 district, which is still being decided by absentee votes, so my vote will count.
A paper ballot is the only way to go.