I have a question about Diebold, sequioa, and other vote machine companies

[burn the bush]

I thought I would check here first to see if this has already been dug up before I started a search for it.

Do we know how these voting machine companies donated to political parties prior to 00?

I'm just curious to see if they gave money to replublicans when Clinton won. Just trying to see if they were playing to the highest bidder or if they have always given to the republicans and just figured out the cheating aspect for the 00 vote.

If you don't know the answers but do know where I can look to find the answers, I would appreciate that too.

thanks in advance for any help

[Wapsie B]

1. A good place to start looking

for political donations is www.opensecrets.org

[burn the bush]

2. thanks, will go check there.

[Wapsie B]

3. You're welcome.

I think Common Dreams web site lists donations but I'm not certain.

[Amaryllis]

4. I've wondered that too; how Clinton even got elected, especially second

term; these guys have been around a long time.
You might find some info here; this is a thread I posted asking for info on Sequoia and ES & S and it has a lot of nefarious history stuff.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=353427&mesg_id=360518

[berniew1]

5. Not much touch screen use prior to 2000

hardly any if any in Florida

[Wilms]

6. There are other ways to hack.

What goes on with OpScans?

Worse, what happens at the central tabulator.

And of course the Dirty Tricks/Malfeasance.

There are other ways.

[Boredtodeath]

7. Actually, there WAS electronic voting in Georgia

53% of Georgia's voters were on an electronic voting system prior to 2000 - mostly ES&S optical scan but Global (now Diebold) thrown into the mix as well.

If you look at the numbers going back to 1992, you see the republican shift in voting start with the implementation of these machines all the way back. They were simply perfecting the method since 1996.

Georgia Details here (pdf)