E-Vote Questions Linger Over Cleland's 2002 Loss

[IndianaGreen]

E-Vote Questions Linger Over Cleland's 2002 Loss

By Matthew Cardinale
11-24-08, 12:56 pm

Original source: The Atlanta Progressive News

(APN) ATLANTA - Lingering questions regarding former US Sen. Max Cleland's (D-GA) loss in 2002 to US Sen. Saxby Chambliss (R-GA) are resurfacing in the last days of Democrat Jim Martin's Run-off Election with Chambliss.

Whistleblower Chris Hood, former Diebold employee, spoke with Atlanta Progressive News in detail about an illegal patch, which may or may not be the same "0808" patch Diebold now admits its workers applied during the 2002 Primary Election.

As previously reported in 2006 by Atlanta Progressive News, Hood and another whistleblower, Rob Behler, had given independent accounts regarding illegal Diebold patches used in 2002, to Rolling Stone magazine, as well as Black Box Voting (BBV) and Wired News magazine, respectively.

Hood told Rolling Stone in 2006 that he and other Diebold employees were instructed by then-Diebold President, Robert Urosevich, to install the patch on some 5,000 machines in Dekalb and Fulton Counties in July 2002.

"Those are the Democratic hot spots. If you can control those 2 counties, you can control the election. We don't need to bother with every county; we need to only bother with the Democratic counties," Hood told Atlanta Progressive News.

"We were provided a patch to put into the system that was supposed to fix the clock," Hood said in an interview with Velvet Revolution (VR) posted on Youtube.com.

"It came to me there was no clock fix involved at all. The clock still would not keep time after I patched 56 machines," Hood said.

http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/7790/

[BeFree]

1. Gee

Ya think that bushco in the aftermath of 9/11 and the run-up to the invasion, would even once ponder that if they got just a few extra senators - by hook or by crook - that their sailing would be made easier?

The pre-election polls were bonkers and the exit-polls went bust after that 2002 Georgia vote. Lets see, add that up with diebold and what do you get?

[TheDebbieDee]

2. Cleland got mugged! Just like Gore.

I can't prove it but I know it in my heart of hearts!

[political_Dem]

3. I'm not surprised if that has been proven to be the case.

But will heads roll for this? Probably not.

I do hope that someone does file a suit.

[nytemare]

4. I met him in '04 at the Kerry campaign office in Orlando.

He was just a genuine, warm, sweet man. I am still sad he lost.