Maryland Scraps Diebold Voting System

beadfulthings writes "After eight years and some $65 million, the state of Maryland is taking its first steps to return to an accountable, paper-ballot based voting system. Governor Martin O'Malley has announced an initial outlay of $6.5 million towards the $20 million cost of an optical system which will scan and tally the votes while the paper ballots are retained as a backup. The new (or old) system is expected to be in place by 2010 — or four years before the state finishes paying off the bill for the touch-screen system."

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Re:Diebold = Premier Election Solutions.

[megaditto]

Four more years of a jug-eared dry drunk in the White House. Well, at least this "dry drunk" isn't starting another NAFTA, gutting our military, selling the nuke/laser/rocketry tech to China, or fingering interns like his predecessor.

Here's just a sample link of what you leebs seem to want: http://www.cnn.com/US/9903/10/nuclear.secrets.02/

Re:Diebold = Premier Election Solutions.

[mrchaotica]

Hey buddy, why don't you take your useless partisan bullshit rhetoric somewhere else? Here's a newsflash for you, asshole: pointing out that "the other guy" also sucks does not diminish the suckage of "this guy," regardless of what names you plug in to the variables. Really, all you ever manage to accomplish with your vapid, nonsensical drooling is to pollute the polite discourse the rest of us are trying to accomplish here!

In summary: you're not helping. In fact, you're harming America by trying to turn thinking people into raving partisan sheeple like yourself. So shut the fuck up, and get the fuck out!