Thousands Turned Away from the Polls in CA on super tuesday
http://www.trivalleyherald.com/Stories/0,1413,86~10669~2100333,00.html ... Diebold Election Services Inc. president Bob Urosevichadmitted this and more, and apologized for any embarrassment. We were caught. We apologize for that, Urosevich said of the mass failures of devices needed to call up digital ballots. Poll-workers in Alameda and San Diego counties hadn't been trained on ways around their failure, and San Diego County chose not to supply polls with backup paper ballots, crippling the largest rollout of e-voting in the nation on March 2. Unknown thousands of voters were turned away at the polls. We're sorry for the inconvenience of the voters, Urosevich said. Weren't they actually disenfranchised? asked Tony Miller, chief counsel to the state's elections division. After a moment, Urosevich agreed: Yes, sir. Flanked by most of California's local elections officials and advocates for the blind and speakers of minority-language, Diebold executives and attorneys pleaded for one more chance. ... State elections officials were dismayed to find that Diebold had sold and installed thousands of its new TSx machines in the state without getting them tested, nationally qualified and even before applying for state certification. I understand your frustration, said Diebold chief developer Tab Iredell. Why did we sell something that we didn't think we could run? Our understanding based on past experience was we thought we could get that certified. If voting could really change things, it would be illegal. - Diebold Internal Memos ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
Re: Thousands Turned Away from the Polls in CA on super tuesday
We're sorry for the inconvenience of the voters, Urosevich said. Inconvenience? To call that putting it mildly is putting it mildly. Weren't they actually disenfranchised? asked Tony Miller, chief counsel to the state's elections division. After a moment, Urosevich agreed: Yes, sir. Duh! Flanked by most of California's local elections officials and advocates for the blind and speakers of minority-language, Diebold executives and attorneys pleaded for one more chance. Uh-uh. Put these mother-fuckers out of business NOW. State elections officials were dismayed to find that Diebold had sold and installed thousands of its new TSx machines in the state without getting them tested, nationally qualified and even before applying for state certification. I understand your frustration, said Diebold chief developer Tab Iredell. Why did we sell something that we didn't think we could run? Our understanding based on past experience was we thought we could get that certified. Why did they sell it? To make money, of course. That's the only value of capitalism. That's why Republicans and other tub-thumpers for deregulation are their own worst enemies. Capitalists need government to keep capitalists from ruining capitalism. Obviously there's plenty of blame to go around here - the county clearly did a poor job. But unquestionably the bulk of the blame here goes to Diebold. Whose CEO (Wally O'Dell) is a major Republican donor and Bush backer and has promised to deliver Ohio's electoral votes to Bush. And we're supposed to give HIM a second chance? So they can steal another election? For more on Diebold's LONG history of screw-ups (and worse), go to www.blackboxvoting.com and www.blackboxvoting.org. -- Tom Beck my LiveJournal: http://www.livejournal.com/users/tomfodw/ I always knew I'd see the first man on the Moon. I never thought I'd see the last. - Dr. Jerry Pournelle -- ___ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
