Dan Rather on CNN: America's Voting Machines Not Ready For '08

[Hissyspit]

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August 14, 2007 - CNN

[Greyskye]

1. CNN is jealous...

...that they are incapable of any kind of investigative journalism.

And that last little bit from a FL election official was a joke. Basically, "Rather is wrong, and I'm insulted." No substantive rebuttal at all of any of the points made in Rather's broadcast.

[diva77]

2. The elections official who was quoted in the "rebuttal" is a Jeb Bush appointee

Sharon L. Harrington

http://www.leeelections.com/intro.htm

Here's what a poster said on Bradblog 5.22.06:

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=2859


COMMENT #16
... Ada said on 5/24/2006 @ 6:22 am PT...


Here in Lee County FL our club had the election supervisor Sharon Harrington come 'speak' to the club about the electronic machines...the why, how and if she'd ever get paper trails. She came in and started off immediately slamming the media and bloggers saying we were making watermelons out of pits, then she proceeded to confidently let us know that since we didn't have Diebold here (we have ES&S Ivontronics) here we had nothing to worry about and we should ?trust? that all votes are backed up (3) times. When we asked without a paper verification how do we know ?what vote? is backed up, she said that we didn?t have verifications in prior voting systems so why should we expect so now. (Well, shame on us?they spend a fortune on machines and we should not expect integrity as it?s never existed? I?d trust a chad over a chip any day!) When we mentioned the fact that Harri Hurst did access voting equipment she started (nastily) stating and putting down Ion Sanchos because she says (Jeb's talking points) he gave them the software and access, like giving a thief keys to your house and safe?.like thieves need keys now a days and like Harri was given Diebold?s proprietary software which no one gets from them. So she expects us to trust her, ES&S, Sequoia, Diebold and others, period or use the mail in ballots, which as explained by her have a high chance in Florida of being cancelled if every ?T? is not crossed and your signature changes one bit! (By the way Florida don?t prove citizenship when they register voters at all, but your signature better not change!) I let her know that I trust in God the rest of them including her should provide the receipts that voters can verify which are so intrinsic to voter confidence. She then stated she just was shown ES&S?s paper receipt and that is was no good that it would only confuse the recounts (like we can even do that in FL) because it records every vote and voter mind change?.more BS to justify not getting them with more lies! Now Lee County is red, but as times change and they will she?s assuring that we cannot have a vote with integrity, proving she?s a trained shill for Jeb and the many fraudulent voting machine producers. I'm sick and we need to file state and national class action suits against the government for not allowing us to have voting with integrity!

[bjobotts]

3. They will do this through the next election also...and they will steal

votes and condemn you for trying to say anything about it. Until they are thrown out of power, and the machines dumped, you will never know the truth of your own voting. It has already been proven that these machines can be manipulated and the source codes for how they work so you can check them are private property. Republicans have succeeded in privatizing our vote, they are just now fine tunning the process. And they own the SC. and DoJ.

[EnricoFermi]

4. Haha, CNN is slowly turning into Fox News

Somehow I don't think I should be laughing.