Reply #26: Wow! [View All]

[Gordon25]

You have my admiration, Eloriel. I go to those kinds of meetings and I know what it must have been like.

"To finish it up, he just had to say what a through-and-through Real DEMOCRAT Cathy Cox is and she would never do anything ... yadayada. (And I wanted to scream again.)"

I know what you mean. Our County Recorder is a Democrat and she was fully briefed and blew it off. Her Director of Elections gave us a good spiel during our committee interviews about how concerned he was with security. It turned out that when the Secretary of State announced her award of the contract to Diebold she singled out that Director of Elections for special recognition for his service on the board that made the contract recomendations. He somehow never got around to letting us know he was serving on that board during our talks.

It really doesn't seem to be an exclusively Republican thing. There is some indication that association with R. Doug Lewis and Election Center is the point of contamination with both Republicans and Democrats coming down with the Diebold appreciation virus.

Thanks for what you did. You're my kind of warrior. When these people are confronted they are forced to lie. The important thing is not that you didn't get a chance to refute all her lies. It is that you educated a lot of people who are very politically active or they wouldn't have been at that meeting.. Now they need a couple of follow up prods and some direction in what to do and they can become effective allies. It isn't ultimately the party leaders we have to convince, it is the party faithful who, when educated, do want to help.

You might check out GA consumer fraud law. You have the Rubin report on the flaws in the DRE software, and the fact the source code and detailed directions to hack it are all over the internet as possible basis for filing a consumer fraud complaint with the GA Attorney General. Hey, you've already got the Governor calling for an investigation. Why not get the Attorney General in on the act?

Gordon25