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Diebold Demands That HBO Cancel Documentary
Frosty Piss writes "According to the Bloomberg News, Diebold Inc. is insisting that HBO cancel a documentary that questions the integrity of its voting machines, calling the program inaccurate and unfair. The program, 'Hacking Democracy,' is scheduled to debut Thursday, five days before the 2006 U.S. midterm elections. The film claims that Diebold voting machines aren't tamper-proof and can be manipulated to change voting results. 'Hacking Democracy' is 'replete with material examples of inaccurate reporting,' says Diebold. 'We stand by the film," said a spokesman for HBO. 'We have no intention of withdrawing it from our schedule. It appears that the film Diebold is responding to is not the film HBO is airing.'"
Looking back to an election that was pretty much STOLEN (by the Bush brothers and a cousin, just to mention a few), one has to wonder just how it was pulled off. Just HOW IN THE HELL do you successfully pull the wool over the eyes of 300 million people?
Easy. Manipulate the tools in which we have based our democracy, most importantly, voting. A huge portion of the votes tabulated in Florida were done so on Diebold voting machines. Since then, their use has become much more prevalent. I my home state, there are 11 counties using their machines for voting, including my own. I don't like it one bit.
Now I ask you this, If they were successful in taking a presidency illegally, wouldn't they want to protect the tools by which they did so? If not to keep stealing elections, but, at the VERY least, to hide the facts surrounding previous use of such means? That is exactly what Diebold is doing. Protecting their current tools of manipulation while preventing the public from questioning the past uses.
If your current state of mind prevents you from questioning the validity of the claims made in the show, just do a little research into Diebold. I did so. It took a surprisingly short amount of time to find apparent "conflict of interest" regarding Diebold. And its not just Diebold but Sequoia as well.
Watch the show, then do your own research. America and our Democracy are being stolen right out from under us. THAT doesn't surprise me that much, to be honest. What really surprises me is the transparency in which it is being done. Are we, as a nation, really that gullible?
Source code is 100% open to find exploits and bugs, when you vote you're given a ticket with a number, anyone can go online and see how everyone voted but only you are able to tell which vote was yours by the corresponding ticket number. That'd allow for everyone to do their own count if they wanted.
You're as clueless as Diebold. We don't want a reciept. Employers could require that their employees show their reciept number, and then verify that they voted as the company said so or else...