Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org

The voting news today has been dominated, not by tomorrow’s primary news, but by an attempted takeover of Diebold by the military industrial complex in the form of United Technologies, which also owns Sikorsky Helicopter and jet engine maker Pratt and Whitney. Diebold received the offer for takeover and has rejected it so far. Remember Dwight Eisenhower’s warning: “In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.”...

• NAtional: Diebold Receives a Takeover Offer
  http://www.nytimes.com/2.../business/03deal.html?hp
• NAtional: Diebold Rejects Proposal From United Technologies
  http://online.wsj.com/ar....html?mod=googlenews_wsj
• NAtional: Diebold Stock Soars After $3 Billion Takeover Bid by Defense Contractor Conglomerate United Technologies
  http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5759
• NAtional: Diebold Rejects Bid as ‘Opportunistic’
  http://dealbook.blogs.ny...ortunistic/?ref=business
• NAtional: Editorial - A New Role for Defense Contractors?: Counting Votes
  http://theboard.blogs.ny...tractors-counting-votes/
• CO: Editorial - Coffman's 'Never mind'
  Were those two months of uncertainty really necessary?
  http://www.rockymountain.../03/coffmans-never-mind/
• CO: Lawmakers Consider Plan To Use Paper Ballots
  http://www.myfoxcolorado...e=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1
• CO: Paper ballot elections get first hearing at Capitol
  http://kjct8.com/Global/story.asp?S=7957205
• CO: San Miguel County - County voting machines recertified
  http://www.telluridenews.com/news/x1907847449
• FL: Think you have the right to vote? Think again
  http://www.beacononlinen...ailyitem.php?itemnum=647
• IN: Voting systems unable to handle high traffic
  http://www.wthr.com/Glob...?S=7958657&nav=9Tai
• NJ: Editorial - Election integrity at stake
  http://blog.nj.com/njv_e..._integrity_at_stake.html
• NY: Steuben County - New Steuben voting machines coming
  County polling places will likely offer choice of levers or optical scan in September.
  http://www.stargazettene...0080303/NEWS01/803030310
• OH: Ohio 'paper' vote system debuting with flaws, researchers say
  http://www.physorg.com/news123779092.html
• OH: Counties ready for ballots
  http://www.tribune-chron.../id/502367.html?nav=5021
• OH: State ruling gives county voters a choice of ballot options
  http://www.chroniclet.co...choice-of-ballot-options
• OH: Counting votes: It’s no quick task
  http://www.vindy.com/new...s-it8217s-no-quick-task/
• OH: Primary puts Ohio, top election official Jennifer Brunner in spotlight
  Most important primary in decades spotlights Brunner
  http://www.cleveland.com...57294271.xml&coll=2
• OH: People crowd polling sites to get votes in ahead of bad weather
  http://www.ohio.com/news...rticleID=419936&c=y
• OH: More than 50,000 votes cast
  http://news.enquirer.com...S01/303030069/1056/COL02
• OH: Cuyahoga County - Election official: Cuyahoga is OK to go
  http://www.chroniclet.co...ial-cuyahoga-is-ok-to-go
• OH: Cuyahoga County - Elections Officials Hoping For Smooth Primary
  http://www.newsnet5.com/...ews/15477971/detail.html
• OH: Franklin County - Board of elections names new director
  http://www.columbusdispa...008/03/02/boeswitch.html
• PA: Elections officials getting ready for possible record turnout
  http://publicbroadcastin...1237304&sectionID=1
• PA: Fayette County - Fayette ballot change may get boost
  http://www.pittsburghliv...urier/news/s_555261.html
• TX: TX Citizen Exit Pollers Display E-Voting "Wheel of Glitches"
  http://www.opednews.com/...tx_citizen_exit_poll.htm
• TX: Confusion Rampant Over Texas 'Primacaucus' Rules
  http://www.huffingtonpos...ant-over-te_b_89548.html
• WV: Officials stand behind voting machines
  http://www.herald-dispatch.com/news/x112305686

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