Reply #68: Sooooo, I called Kathy Rodgers [View All]

[Eloriel]

Not very satisfying experience. But before I mention that, I keep remembering the look on her face last night when I asked, in effect (don't remember the exact words), Well, if the certification is so great why didn't they catch what terrible code it was? The LOOK on her face was absolutely defeated. I think that's when she came up with the stocks (Thanks, Avi!).

So this afternoon I told Kathy I was very interested in what she had to say about the paper ballots being such a pain, that that had given me a lot to think about. (She pretended not to know which woman at the end of the session I might have been!)

Then I asked if we couldn't sit down and go over this whole thing at some length because if we don't fix this problem, "one of two bad things is going to happen. Either Cathy Cox's career goes down in flames, or we lose our right to vote tho we will still have the illusion of democracy." In retrospect, might have been too heavy a thing to lay on her.

"We have had a lot of people who want to go over this at greath length .... very busy right now, in fact an election next week, ... yadayada... that's why we've set up these open houses at KSU..."

"Well, what I don't understand is, if there are knowledgeable people who are" trying to get information into your hands, why would you not want to listen? (Something to that effect.)

"I've read all the info, it's got a lot of untruths in it."

"Like what, for example?"

Something about the "software," and then she caught herself and said she didn't have the time and wasn't technical enough anyway to debate "point by point." "Dr. Williams has already debated all that."

At some point I think she put me on speaker phone, which makes me think she called someone else into the room. She also said something about not wanting to discuss it because of "being taped," and I assured her (if she was even listening) that I wasnt' taping this.

Like I said, not very satisfying.

Eloriel