{Saturday, August 26, 2006}
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Yet another tale of voting machine woe unfolds as Diebold machine defects necessitate hand counts and manual uploading in several Alaskan precincts. link 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA Did you know.... 1. 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S. source source 3. The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers. source source 4. The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." source source 9. Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters. source source 10. Diebold also makes ATMs, checkout scanners, and ticket machines, all of which log each transaction and can generate a paper trail. source source  |
