paper receipt voting machine inventor dies - coincidence or not?

[shanti]

http://blackpressusa.com/News/Article.asp?SID=3&Title=National+News&NewsID=3272

sorry, i can't post any paragraphs from the story as the site won't allow right clicking.

[LittleApple81]

1. I got some....

WASHINGTON (NNPA) – The African-American who invented a voting machine that he believed would remedy the problems that occurred during the 2000 presidential election has died only eight months before the next contest between George W. Bush and John Kerry.

Athan Gibbs Sr. of Nashville, who unveiled his invention of a computerized voting machine with paper receipts at the summer conference of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) in Atlanta three years ago, was killed when the SUV he was driving was hit from behind by a tractor trailer as he changed lanes in the morning of March 12. He was 57 years old.

Determined to win full federal certification for the TruVote System, Gibbs, an accountant, never saw his dream come true. However, his family and associates say they will pick up where he left off.

“It’s going to go into full throttle,” says his son, Jonathan Gibbs, executive director of a marketing firm and graduate of the University of Memphis. “I’ll be one of the ball carriers.”

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[mtnester]

2. Here's one

"Athan Gibbs Sr. of Nashville, who unveiled his invention of a computerized voting machine with paper receipts at the summer conference of the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) in Atlanta three years ago, was killed when the SUV he was driving was hit from behind by a tractor trailer as he changed lanes in the morning of March 12. He was 57 years old."

Guess it is dangerous to drive as well as fly. Should it be on bushbodycount.com?

[Bozita]

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Jonathan, 25, recalls his father being so disheartened by the developments during the loss of more than 200,000 votes in Florida and an estimated 4 to 6 million votes nationwide during in 2000 that he repeatedly sent him to Wal-Mart for at least 20 video cassette tapes to record the daily television coverage until the U. S. Supreme Court stopped the recounting of votes in Florida.

Ultimately, Jonathan Gibbs recalls, “He just figured out the way to fix this thing is to have an audit system. Whenever there’s a problem with finance or numbers, you need some kind of accounting system.”

In short, TruVote allows voters to touch the names of their candidates on a computer screen and receive paper receipts with an exclusive validation number. Then, as a backup, they could go to a Web site, punch in the validation number, and receive confirmation that their vote was recorded.

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[PROGRESSIVE1]

4. He gave a few hundred to Democrat Bob Clement:

http://www.opensecrets.org/indivs/search.asp?NumOfThou=0&txtName=Gibbs%2C+At&txtState=TN&txtZip=&txtEmploy=&txtCand=&txt2004=Y&txt2002=Y&txt2000=Y&Order=N