Jeff Johnson at “Urban In-Fill” points us to a photo he says was snapped recently in Columbus, Ohio…
Click on the photo for a larger version, but if you can’t tell, that’s a truck with a Diebold logo on the side, and a John McCain sticker on the back…
As everyone in the world likely remembers by now, Diebold’s former CEO Walden O’Dell was a major George W. Bush backer who, in a 2003 Republican fundraising letter wrote that he was “committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.”
Some time after that mission was accomplished, and Diebold’s 160-year old, blue-chip good name was sent into the toilet, O’Dell was jettisoned amidst several ongoing fraud investigations, the new regime claimed they would impliment new regulations barring public support for political candidates.
Guess the memo hasn’t gotten fully out. Or perhaps, now that they’ve put lipstick on the Diebold pig (disclaimer: this article has nothing to do with Sarah Palin), by changing the name of their elections division to “Premier” in hopes of fooling America again, the parent company Diebold has loosened their restrictions on supporting Republican campaigns in Ohio and elsewhere.
Diebold/Premier is currently being sued by Ohio Sec. of State Jennifer Brunner, in the wake of the company’s recent admission that the tabulator software on their voting systems — both touch-screen and op-scan — to be used in 34 states this November, doesn’t work, and drops thousands of votes without notice to the system operator.
In late 2007, they also were forced to admit that the memory cards on their op-scan paper-ballot systems are prone to failure. The same systems which were seen being hacked, via those memory cards, in HBO’s Emmy-nominated documentary Hacking Democracy (video of that hack here.)
Prior to all of that, after we had supplied Princeton University with a Diebold touch-screen system, given to us by a Diebold insider, computer scientists there demonstrated that those machines were easily hacked with a vote-flipping virus which could pass itself from machine to machine and flip an entire county’s election without detection. Oh, and that their machines, all across the country, used an identical key to open them up — one which could be purchased at any office supply store, or simply created by hand from a photo of the key as seen on the company’s own website.
Other than that…Heckuva job, Diebold! Keep on truckin’!
Brad – What is Obama doing to keep the situation from costing us yet another election? Surely, in this time of great political advantage, someone is taking proactive steps?
Diebold.
WE WON’T REST.
At least its a company that lives up to its slogan!
Brad –
Just wondering – are there ANY cases of Democratic election fraud or widescale voter fraud being reported? The Republicans and cons would say it’s because the media is left-biased…but even FOX hasn’t reported any to my knowledge. Personally, if we don’t, then I must wonder if this is due to a difference in the general psyche of liberals and conservatives.
Speaking of which, are there any Republican voter registration drives to speak of?
Not to mention the Sunoco sticker. Are these guys ‘in the tank’ for the GOP, or what? Yay, Democracy!
There are plenty of cases of Democratic election fraud. Generally, they are aimed at keeping local people in office, rather than affecting national elections. See blackboxvoting.org for some current examples in Tennessee (I think).
Well to my amazement @##$%%!! we (Canada) have to show photo ID and an address to vote (Oct 14, 08) or we can sign an oath or have another registered voter sign one for us. ( I have been trying to find out how many cases of “voter fraud” in Canada with no response from anyone!) This new “law” passed late 06 after Harper won with a 38% minority. ( That is the negative part of having more than two party’s to vote for) 62% voted for others, NDP, Green and Liberals, but he still won.
He legislated a new “fixed” election date for every four years-it passed- unless a vote of non-confidence came up. He is now breaking his own law.
So here we go with our mini-bush trying to become a dictator. Unfortunately he may win a majority this time as people are sick of elections. Three in four years!!
Apathy will help him win.
Jeeezzaazz!!!
Is there a better picture of the side of the truck? Even enlarged and with a magnifying glass I could only clearly make out “BOLD”, I was looking for something like… Diebold logo
Just checked Jeff Johnson’s “Urban In-Fill”, found this…
“This photo has made its way to the VP of US Service Operations at Diebold and I just received notice that the campaign sticker has been removed from this vehicle.” — Jeff Johnson
So the stickers been removed, wonder about the driver?
Stumbled upon this one from 2006. At first I thought it was just a better angle of the above truck. But no, this is a totally different Diebold truck (in Colorado) but this time with a Bush sticker!
Diebold Truck with Bush Sticker
Addendum to my previous message, when you go to the guys website, in order to see the whole truck you may have to right click on the image of the truck and select “view image” (that works with firefox)
This truck has a nice view of the Diebold logo!
ACORN!
Ohio currently has 105% of it’s population registered to vote… Yes, 105%. ACORN has been getting people to register as many as 72 times, there is video of a woman who works for ACORN telling a news reporter that she tells people to vote for Obama when she gets them to register. And while Mizzzzz Brunner is suing Diebold, she has the audacity to claim there is no evidence that ACORN is committing voter fraud themselves? No, she’s not playing politics to get her party the white house.
The sooner we all wise up to the fact that our elections are being rigged by both sides, the sooner we can fix this problem.
>…Robert Lodespoto said on 10/9/2008
>Ohio currently has 105% of it’s population registered to vote… Yes, 105%.
Do you have a link? A right-wingnut site (ala Michelle Malkin) doesn’t count.
Here’s the true info on Acorn…
ACORN is the nation”s largest grassroots community organization of low- and moderate-income people with over 400,000 member families organized into more than 1,200 neighborhood chapters in 110 cities across the country. Voter participation: Since 2004, ACORN has helped more than 1.7 million low- and moderate-income and minority citizens apply to register to vote. http://www.acorn.org
In January 2005 two Colorado ACORN workers were sentenced to community service for submitting false voter registrations. http://www.boston.com
In 2007, five Washington state ACORN workers were sentenced to jail time.
As to other states, found accusations, but no actual convictions. bradblog article
ACORN has registered over 1.7 million new voters. From what I can find, ACORN registration is over 99% accurate. That’s a pretty good record. After all, you don’t throw out the whole bushel because of a few bad acorns.