Diebold Not to Blame for Diebold Disasters Says Diebold (Brad)

[Amaryllis]

Diebold Not to Blame for Diebold Disasters Says Diebold

As you know, those "glitches" in our elections are never Diebold's fault, or that of any of the Electronic Voting Machine Vendors who supply the equipment that doesn't actually work. It's always an untrained pollworker, or a voter who didn't read the instructions, or too darn much humidity.

So it wasn't Diebold's fault when Diebold's machines failed to work or to count absentee ballots by the thousands on Tuesday in Cuyahoga County, Ohio's Primary Election.

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As of 5pm Wednesday, Cuyahoga County was still hand-counting the 17,000 absentee ballots which the Diebold machines, through absolutely no fault of Diebold's, were unable to count as Diebold had promised.

No word yet on whose fault it wasn't that Diebold's paper-trail printers kept jamming all day, or on the 70 Diebold memory cards (otherwise known as thousands and thousands of ballots) which went missing. But we know that wasn't Diebold's fault either. Though perhaps the part about them being so incredibly easy for anybody to change the data on those cards in about 30 seconds while they're "missing" could be Diebold's fault.

For the rest:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002778.htm

[Metta]

1. Who are we supposed to believe? Them or our own eyes?

Groucho Marx. Right as always.

[Kittycat]

2. Nothing to see here, move along ;)

eom

[nicknameless]

3. So predictably, the solution to the train wreck presented itself.

Hand counted paper ballots.

I hope that precincts will have plenty of paper ballots on hand in November.

[Canuckistanian]

4. Sure, the machines failed

And the machines are made by Diebold. And we're Diebold.

But that doesn't mean Diebold failed.

You can tell they're Republicans, can't you? It's that impeccable logic.

[mmarcus]

5. Diebold = Liebold

I have never seen such a bunch of liars in my life.