Diebold goes to Washington on Ohio(Cleveland Dispatch)

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“Since the meeting with Chavanne, the Athens County Board of Elections has voted to go with an optical-scan system, not manufactured by Diebold. At the time of the meeting, however, it appeared the board was ready to buy Diebold electronic touch-screen machines. Its two Republican members were in favor of Diebold, as was one Democrat, with Gwinn the lone holdout.”

“I really, quite frankly, don’t know,” Gwinn said. “What happened is just what I said (in the Dispatch story). The thing of it is, he already had three votes. And if anybody knew me, they would probably know there was no way they would ever get me to change my vote.”

“She said she agreed to meet with Chavanne “just to be courteous.” After talking about the Diebold machines, she said, Chavanne asked about the prospects for Democrats in local elections, and she told him the party faced some challenging races. “I said, ‘Man, it’s going to be tough,’” she recalled.”

“At that point, according to Gwinn, Chavanne “said something to the effect that ‘That’s one of the reasons I came down,’” i.e. to help out the Democratic candidates.”

“After Gwinn refused Chavanne’s offer of a “personal contribution” to the party, believing it inappropriate, she said, Chavanne made the suggestion about giving cash to the party’s “operating fund.” “I said, ‘We don’t have such a thing, I don’t think it’s legal, and I can’t accept such a contribution,’” she claimed. It was then, she alleged, that Chavanne suggested making the check out to Gwinn.”

“He said, ‘I could just write a check out to you, personally,’ and I said, ‘Absolutely not,’” she contended.”

“In working on behalf of Diebold, he said, he was not directly employed by the North Canton company, but had been hired by a firm contracting with it. He said he was not even involved in selling Diebold’s machines, but had been asked merely to reassure nervous Democrats that the machines wouldn’t deliver the vote to the GOP by some computerized hanky-panky.”

“Concerns on this score were raised by reports that the machines’ vote tallies could be tampered with via the Internet, and perhaps even more so by comments from a top Diebold official who promised to “deliver Ohio” for the Bush presidential campaign.”

“The combination of those two (reports) created among many Democrats a very serious feeling that we were trying to sell machines that, no matter how we voted in Ohio, Bush was going to win,” he recalled. His job was to dispel this notion, which he said was baseless.”

“Can you take a Diebold machine, go home, or go to your laboratory, and alter it? I’m sure you can,” he said. “But who in the world is going to let you do that?”

http://www.ohiohonestelections.org

Translation: "Let us give you some money, and we'll elect DLC democrats and GOP stooges to any position of Ohio....If you join us, we'll make it worth your while"

Diebold and ES&S are now just like the borg. Resistance is futile they claim. This is totally amazing, and they actually believe their systems are proven secure when they are found lying around dishonest politicians offices all the time, or in the open with broken seals.

How in the world did our elections get THIS out of control???

:puke: :argh: :smoke:

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1. all part of the "vast right wing conspiracy" or whatever

No idea what's really going on behind it all, but these guys are really schmoozing their ways in hard and heavy.

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2. Yep. n|t