BBV: N.D. to buy voting machines for all 53 counties (ES&S contract)

[Bushfire]

N.D. to buy voting machines for all 53 counties
By Dale Wetzel
Associated Press Writer
The Forum - 01/11/2004

BISMARCK-- North Dakota is paying an Omaha company $5.3 million to supply new voting machines for the state’s 53 counties, Secretary of State Al Jaeger said.

The machines will get their first tryouts in Grand Forks and Williams counties in June, and are scheduled for a statewide rollout in the 2006 elections.

The equipment includes 600 “touch screen” machines, designed to allow North Dakotans with disabilities to vote without assistance from others, and another 600 scanners, which resemble a medium-sized computer printer.

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Election Systems was one of three companies that competed for the contract. The others were Diebold Election Systems of McKinney, Texas, and Avante International Technology of Princeton Junction, New Jersey.

more...

http://www.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=47796

This S.O.S. seems to have bought off, and comments negatively against paper ballots. I hope some ND DUers give him some hell.

http://www.electionline.org/index.jsp

[arcane1]

1. wonderful :/

even with all the controversy going on... I'd think at this point, with BBV getting some attention, that these idiots would at least hold off until the damned things are proven...

sigh...

:evilfrown:

[Lostnote03]

2. Unbelievable!!!!

......I can't help but believe that the opportunity for graft is the source of motivation for the state officials recognizing these contracts in the face of overwhelming doubt as to the integrity of BBV......

[rainy]

3. Someone in ND should go to the courthouse and file suit

They can show harm and personal standing as their sacred right of the vote is in jepardy. They can cite many cases to support their case. Whem my city decides to buy these machines I plan to sue them for violating my right of a confirmed vote. With no paper trail there is no way to confirm.