Say It Isn't So... IT'S SO! Diebold Crashes AGAIN in Official Count

[kster]

Citizen's overseeing Cuyahoga's Board of Elections

Sunday, November 18, 2007

Conclusion

Diebold is no "Premier" company - far from it! We need to get our money back, trash these Diebold products, and move on...and quickly!

Hand counted paper ballots, that are humanly marked and readable and verifiable - for OUR elections, including for President - is the very best answer.

I would accept at this point, precinct based scanners - preferably from a company with pristine accountability, and preferably with open-source software (that which is not secret and can be checked by many computer experts, that all it's essentially doing is counting, not changing the voter's will.) - absolutely NOT from Diebold.

That way, everyone marks a paper ballot even at the polls, the ballots can be scanned at the polls to check for under and over-votes, and to create a preliminary count which would later be audited by hand; the ballots drop into separate, locked box; the precinct scanner results can be posted for viewing at every precinct on election night, so we can follow our results from the polls, to check for reasonableness against final totals; and with a truly very high speed scanner (thousands of ballots per hour) that also photos every ballot, the CCBOE can do it's pre-audited central election night count.

http://citizensboe.blogspot.com/2007/11/say-it-isnt-so-its-so-diebold-crashes.html

[havocmom]

1. To the greatest page with ya. Get this topic out there around water coolers

What amazes me is Diebold makes machines for the banking industry that can print out receipts and be audited to a penny. People would not put up with ATM and other bank scanners that were as questionable as what states are trusting national elections to.

It is INSANE!

[MissWaverly]

2. Let's have our millions back, all of it

They hid the flaws, the fact that the memory cards would fail, they left the name of our Senator off the ballot in counties here in
Maryland in 2004, the country has been endangered due to the inaccuracy of these machines. Hold an investigation, prosecute for fraud and get back the people's money.

"Who Stole the People's Money - Twas Him" as Thomas Nast said in his cartoons on Boss Tweed.

[lonestarnot]

3. And they didn't stop there! The office, the furniture, the Constitution (to include the Bill of

Rights) They stole the whole shitt'n cabutal!

[windoe]

4. Realistically, how can the next election be fair?

Diebold machines are still in the plans for next election! Is the only way around it to vote absentee ballot? I am amazed we are still not assured a fair election, when it is so crucial we have this now!!!