Trouble for Diebold in Georgia
With Diebold, Inc.'s financial and ethical and political chickens perhaps finally coming home to roost, Andrew Gumbel, author of Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America comes out with some more troubling information on the voting machines sold by America's largest Voting Machine Company.
As we write this morning, Diebold's trouble stock prices, which fell nearly 20% over two days last week alone, continue to tumble. DBD share prices are down 2.33% so far in early trading today closed down another 3.3% today!
The trouble reported by Gumbel today, comes out of Georgia, vis a vis the Democratic Secretary of State down there and what appears to be some less-than-above-board contractual shenanigans with Diebold and their hardware and software. The report also suggest that votes may have disappeared entirely from Diebold voting machines
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00001875.htm
Looks like the electronic voting machines are starting
to unravel, lets keep the pace going, and rid the US
of every single voting machine.
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ALL electronic voting
machines are suspect and the places that adopt them. They are easily tampered with. I hope there will be a grassroots clamour to outlaw these machines and get our democracy back together again by '06.
DIebold Machines
I often wondered, in the run up to the Iraqi "elections" earlier this year, if the Iraqi's were using Diebold voting machines, would Bush have won that election also?
Investors are suing
also, so part of the fall in prices is due to investors bailing out.
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth lie, but rather mourn the apathetic throng, the coward, and the meek, who see the world's great anguish and its wrong, and dare not speak.
Ralph Chaplin
Bogus Elections
And in related news, some are starting to question the suspiciously high yes vote totals in some precincts in Iraq for the referendum on the constitution. I was thinking all along Bush would make sure the Shiites and Kurds knew how to "get the right result" in any election held. This is, after all, the Bush notion of what "democracy" means. It is the people's opportunity to rubber-stamp the decisions of the elite that deserves to lead them.