Diebold head promised to deliver Ohio for Bush -- last year

[politmuse1]

Against all polls and exit polls, obviously he kept his promise.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm

[Pirate Smile]

1. This has to get lost of attention.

[NVMojo]

2. The repukes in Nevada, including the SOS, promised to deliver

NV to Bush last year too. with Sequoias.

[GinaMaria]

3. no he hasn't. We won't let him.

Gotta get some sleep. I'll see you all in the AM. Hang in there. Remember step 1 was to GOTV and step 2 is to get the vote counted. We are on step 2. We got these people out and registered and to the polls, we can't just drop it there. We have to see that their votes get counted.

[RevCheesehead]

4. Send this to Kerry Campaign ASAP!

[mountebank]

5. I wonder how he did it with paper ballots in Ohio.... n/t

Not to rain on your parade, but Ohio was not using DREs.

[DemBones DemBones]

7. Exercise your reading skills and you'll find otherwise.

Here are a few paragraphs so you don't have to be bothered clicking on the link -- maybe your mouse is broken.



Published on Thursday, August 28, 2003 by the Cleveland Plain Dealer

Voting Machine Controversy

by Julie Carr Smyth

COLUMBUS - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election.

O'Dell attended a strategy pow-wow with wealthy Bush benefactors - known as Rangers and Pioneers - at the president's Crawford, Texas, ranch earlier this month. The next week, he penned invitations to a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser to benefit the Ohio Republican Party's federal campaign fund - partially benefiting Bush - at his mansion in the Columbus suburb of Upper Arlington.

The letter went out the day before Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, also a Republican, was set to qualify Diebold as one of three firms eligible to sell upgraded electronic voting machines to Ohio counties in time for the 2004 election.

For the rest, see link to Common Dreams in original post.

[blackowl]

11. Massive turnout = Repug victory?

"COLUMBUS - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election."

Our Call
Zogby International's 2004 Predictions
(as of Nov. 2, 2004 5:00pm EST)

2004 Presidential Election

Electoral Votes:

Bush
213

Kerry
311

Too Close To Call
Nevada (5)

Too Close To Call
Colorado (9)

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Something's rotten here...

[Madd_Mann]

6. I'm not too sure he got to deliver on that.

Most of our state (yeah I live here, and we do suck!) voted on the old punch-card machines which were famous for the "hanging chad" problem in Fla 2000.
In my county Cuyahoga the county head of elections refused to accept the computerized machines (even after we'd paid for them) unless they offered a paper trail.

I too look at the exit polling data, and the SoS Tim Blackwell's dirty tricks and feel that SOMETHING fishy happened here.

I'm just not sure what.

[DemBones DemBones]

8. How widely were the new machines used?

And did Diebold or Sequoia get the contract?

[DemBones DemBones]

9. Here's what Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo says about Ohio:

http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com


(November 02, 2004 -- 10:40 PM EST // link // print)

Why no more network coverage of the flurry of lawsuits across Ohio? This is what the election is coming down to. And it's not being reported. Interviews with party chairs, no coverage of where the election is being decided.

-- Josh Marshall

(November 02, 2004 -- 10:31 PM EST // link // print)


Across the board the story is the same in Ohio, a lawsuit strategy from Republicans is causing delays and shutdowns in precincts that remained open to allow people who were already in line to vote. Lawsuits create delays; folks leave.

-- Josh Marshall


(November 02, 2004 -- 09:52 PM EST // link // print)


What we're hearing is that Florida is too close to call. In Ohio, the GOP is pulling out all the stops, frankly, to steal it in the courts, trying to get courts to stop voting for people who were already in line when the polls closed, ruling against provisional ballots, the whole nine yards. It's wall to wall ugly.

[PATRICK]

10. Had he not

Just think. Bush would be a clear winner now. The efforts of the BBV actiivists were not enough, though necessary.