Howard Dean "Gets It"

[BeFree]

Rolling Stone: You’ve been sounding the alarm on touch-screen voting machines, particularly Diebold machines. Why?

Howard Dean: Touch-screen voting machines absolutely cannot be relied upon. Our recommendation was optiscan ballots — where you actually have custody of the actual ballots after the ballots have been passed through the computer. That’s the most reliable system to use. And people should not use the electronic voting machines. Even electronic voting machines with paper trails can be manipulated.

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http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/?p=175

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Thank you, Howard. And thank you, RFK Jr.

Dean and Kennedy "get it". When will the rest of the Dems?

[msongs]

1. never? not a priority for the democratic party as a whole nt

[Cha]

2. "It's the media, stupid"!!

"HD: What are we going to do about it? It’s frustrating because we don’t control the levers of power. This is going to be a very critical election in 2006. We’re very aware that there’s huge potential for additional mischief in 2006. We have no doubt that some of the folks who were active in vote suppression will be active again. It’s very, very difficult to deal with it. We just have to keep pushing forward doing the best we can. The real question is why the mainstream media won’t write about this.


I’ve personally made phone calls to some Democrats who seem to think that these machines are not so bad. I’ve made calls to Pennsylvania and New York to Democratic officials who are thinking of using these machines, warning them that they’re not reliable and that they’ll throw the results of an election into doubt. There are some Democrats who’ve OK’d these machines in their state. I’ve told them ahead of time I think that’s a mistake."

Thank you Rolling Stone for not being part of the vast right wing media conspicacy!

And thank you BeFree for posting this!

[Skink]

3. Meanwhile the Republican congress bribes states to use these

machines.

[BeFree]

4. Howard Dean finally comes out against DREs and DU just yawns?

That pisses me off. Your vote is being stolen, and so your government sits in power with no verification, and the leader of the Dem party finally plants himself squarely against the whole mess, and this post goes nowhere?

WTF?

[madfloridian]

5. It has been posted several times, and ignored by almost everyone.

I was just going to post it again, so glad you did.

Strange, huh? Recommended.

[dave29]

6. He is an "It Getter"

:)