Reply #24: Imporvement of electoral system [View All]

[RedEagle]

TFHP-

I posted this as a warning to people in Ohio as to what is coming down.

If you don't think I'm not working on the electoral system, you're dead wrong.

I authored a bill in a state legislature right now. I spend a LOT of time working with legislators, auditors, and informing citizens that it is up to THEM to change the system.

Part of changing that system takes into account things like the Diebold memo that says if California is still thinking paper, perhaps Diebold isn't paying their lobbyists enough. Seems to me voting system vendors should be prohibited from employing lobbyists.

Part of changing that system is making the system accountable to citizens and not the whim of election officials who go on to careers with voting machine companies. California is one with quite a history of that, along with several others.

Are the voting companies to blame? Well, at least in part, or you're not being honest. Do they have to hold out that carrot to election officials? Do they have to lobby against paper? Do they lobby FOR the most accuate, people accountable systems-NO.

The problem with the system is that money speaks and guess who's got it- your innocent voting companys. Do they use that power and money well? I guess not.

Oh, and the chads and such in Florida? What if it was a Diebold plant that produced the chad prone cards? And it was certainly the Diebold optical scan memory card upload that produced the negative 16,000 votes for Gore.

Can't help where the chips fall TFHP. But I, and a lot of others, don't happen to think those chips only fall on Diebold. That's why we are working to change the system, instead of just spreading sarcasm around on those who truly do care.