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California Panel Recommends Dumping Diebold

Posted by michael on from the panel-which-cried-wolf dept.

sdw3u writes "Wired reports that a voting panel urged California officials to stop using a voting machine made by Diebold Election Systems, and recommends that the state consider filing civil and criminal charges against the company." There's also an AP story. We covered the hearing yesterday, with Diebold admitting that their machines had numerous problems.

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  1. even if Diebold machines worked... by The+Lynxpro · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...the California Panel and Legislature probably would've recommended against going with Diebold to supply voting machines. Diebold's management is closely aligned with President Bush, and as we all know, aside from the current Governor, the California government is essentially controlled by the Democratic Party. They would've seized on Diebold's President's statements about "delivering" the 2004 election to the Bush Administration. No matter how harmless the words probably were, they are easily translated into something rather sinister. Granted, vote tabulating machines have always been crooked, and that was the reason why IBM never entered the market. You can read all about it in the book published in 1993 known as "Votescam."

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  2. Re:Many many problems by andalay · · Score: 0, Troll

    I have never had to produce any sort of ID to vote in the US. I did not have to to register to vote either.

    Probably because your vote doesnt matter anyway.