Ohio county fires back at voting machine company

[helderheid]

Ohio county fires back at voting machine company
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July 16, 2008 18:43 EDT

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Prosecutors in Ohio's most populous county have
accused a voting machine company of breach of contract, fraud and
negligence.

Premier Election Solutions Inc. last month asked a Franklin County
judge to rule that it had fulfilled its contracts with Cuyahoga
County.

County Prosecutor Bill Mason filed a response with the court late
Tuesday. He says in a statement that he intends to recover public
funds spent on a system that didn't work.

Allen, Texas-based Premier is part of North Canton-based Diebold Inc.

The county quit using Diebold voting machines after problems during
the November election. The touch-screen machines cost $22 million.

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Here are two video clips (one by Fox News and one by CNN's Lou Dobbs)
showing how easy it is to hack Diebold TS machines in an undetectable
fashion:

Fox News: http://utahcountvotes.org/ (scroll down to the second video clip)

CNN: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_exVfvC-cI

NY Times editorial from yesterday, calling for audits of paper
ballots to check voting machine accuracy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/opinion/16wed1.html?_r=2&hp=&pagewanted=print&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

1. I've always always always said the path to success is product liability lawsuits

Because that's the long and short of the issue.

[helderheid]

3. yep!

[Wilms]

13. Thanks for that insight. n/t

[Why Syzygy]

2. kick ass!

[helderheid]

4. !

:kick:

[helderheid]

5. nudge

[bleever]

6. "Premier Election Systems" is Diebold's new name,

for anyone who may have missed that.

K&R!

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Sort of.

Diebold separated their ATM division from the voting machine division, and PES is the new name for that unit, under different management. I guess they got tired of being asked why ATMs could function with virtually 100% accuracy and give printed receipts, but their voting machines constantly fail and cannot provide receipts.

[bleever]

8. Right.

Thank you for clarifying.

[ColbertWatcher]

9. LOL! So typical of a criminal enterprise! n/t

[helderheid]

10. that would get tiresome, eh?

:)

[Peace Patriot]

11. Hey, NY, it's a lot cheaper and simpler NOT to buy these devil machines in the first place!

From the OP above: "NY Times editorial from yesterday, calling for audits of paper
ballots to check voting machine accuracy" (link).

[Wilms]

14. Hey. Where's the link?!?

Inquiring minds and all that.

[Peace Patriot]

17. The link is in the OP above (at the bottom of the post). nt

[helderheid]

12. kick

[helderheid]

15. I'm hungry.

[Kolesar]

16. Prosecutor Bill Mason sent two f**k-up election workers to jail last year...eom