Diebold machines coming under more scrutiny

[Judi Lynn]

Posted on Thu, Apr. 22, 2004

Diebold machines coming under more scrutiny
Associated Press

NORTH CANTON, Ohio - At a time when state and county governments are looking to spend billions to upgrade their voting equipment, a company that makes electronic voting machines is coming under increased scrutiny.

Diebold Inc. is best known for making automated teller machines and banking and business security equipment.

Its McKinney, Texas, subsidiary Diebold Election Systems has been in business since 2002 and last year accounted for 5 percent of Diebold's sales. It put about 56,000 touch-screens in service for the March 2 Super Tuesday primary, mostly in Maryland, Georgia and California.

But the California secretary of state's office on Wednesday accused Diebold of computer glitches, late software fixes and poor service that "jeopardized the outcome of the March election."
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/breaking_news/8489176.htm
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[whistle]

1. Scrutiny is good, the ax would be much better!

:argh:

[LeftCoast]

2. You said it!

With a little luck, maybe that'll happen here in CA. Our Sec. of State seems plenty pissed at Diebold.

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Somehow I didn't know Diebold Election Systems was in Texas!

I've always associated all of Diebold with Ohio --

[Old and In the Way]

4. Odd that a company who makes ATM machines is clueless

about voting receipts. When I checked their website, they didn't even have printers as an option. Now why wouldn't a for-profit company offer an add-on feature that enhances their revenue stream? Wouldn't that be about the easiest sale they could ever make?

[xxqqqzme]

5. Californians go here - 2day last day

http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?itemid=16791

On April 21 and 22, 2004, the California Secretary of State's Voting Systems and Procedures Panel will decide whether to decertify paperless electronic voting systems before the November election. The call for decertification arose in California following the disenfranchisement of thousands of California voters during the March 2, 2004, election due to technical problems with electronic voting systems. In Alameda County, problems with Diebold smart card encoders affected one-fourth of the County's polling places; in San Diego County, encoder problems affected nearly 40 percent of the County's polling places. In Orange County, thousands of voters were given the wrong electronic ballots; many were unable to cast votes in contests for which they were eligible, while others were allowed to vote in districts in which they did not reside.

[Judi Lynn]

6. "You can't vote them out if you never voted them in."

The fiendish Diebold voting thingie


Article: Election Fraud & Voting Machines
http://www.cronus.com/electionfraud/