Reply #9: UT: Kathy Dopp (USCountsVotes) Acts Local & National...all the time! [View All]

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Kathy Dopp of USCountsVotes is at it again, going after Diebold. You go Kathy!

THE PARK(CITY) RECORD

Demonstration scheduled for voting machines

http://www.parkrecord.com/Stories/0,1413,122~8138~3023745,00.html


By Patrick Parkinson, Of the Record staff
August 24, 2005
Park City, UT

Whether voters in Summit County will mark ballots by hand or use computer monitors in 2006 is still undetermined. The Summit County Commission is scheduled to see a demonstration Wednesday of controversial electronic election machines manufactured by the company Diebold.

Commissioners hinted last week that budget constraints could force them to follow the state's lead and purchase the embattled firm's touch-screen voting systems, so-called direct recording equipment (DRE).

Frustrated by these intentions, Park City resident Kathy Dopp lashed out at Diebold and Utah Lieutenant Governor Gary Herbert for contracting with the company to spend around $28 million to equip the state's 29 counties with voting equipment.

"They put all their money into lobbyists and bribing," she told commissioners about Diebold. "Doesn't that make you even a little bit suspicious?"

The push is part of a nationwide effort by states to meet requirements of the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002. Passed in the wake of the 2000 presidential election to fix ballot discrepancies, HAVA is also an attempt by Congress to make the polls more accessible for the disabled.

"There's been a long history in America of election tampering," Dopp told the County Commission.





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