Wired magazine- "E vote memo is smoking gun"

Bueller? Bueller?



But the memo, which the company sent to Florida election officials before the state's September primary,
revealed that the iVotronic machines had a flaw that sometimes caused machines to respond slowly to a
voter's touch "beyond the normal time a voter would expect to have their selection highlighted.

RIGHT?

BWA! right.... :eyes:

There were several elections that were "improper" in the 2006 races, and NONE of them have been sufficiently reviewed. I really wonder if we wouldn't have had an untouchable majority if elections had been handled properly.

:kick::kick::kick:

We'll just have to start throwing them in the hold , without gutting them.

We apologize, but Karl Rove is away from his desk at the moment and your vote may be approved, or not, as soon as he returns.

" Last year, ES&S, which did not return a call for comment, told the court that its machines performed with 100 percent accuracy and
worked as designed during the 2006 elections ."

ES&S's source code--to figure out why 18,000 votes for Congress in Democratic precincts were 'disappeared' (in an election decided by some 300 votes)--ES&S responded that their "right" to profit from our election system and keep their 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY vote "counting" programming code a SECRET, trumps the right of voters to know how their votes are being counted--even in an election as stinky as this one. And the judge agreed with ES&S!

It is THIS that is the problem. Not a private corporation "discovering" a flaw in our election system, back at corporate headquarters, and sending a letter to "FL Users" (our publicly funded election officials) to post a sign about it, or promising to submit it to secret, industry-controlled "testing" (ahem, "state" certification). These outages are possible BECAUSE our election system has been SOLD TO private, rightwing, Bush-donor corporations, who operate our election system in gangster fashion, just like Bush/Cheney run the federal government.

It's not the memo--"smoking gun" that it is. It's WHO wrote the memo, and why, and what that means about their private control of election results. The FL "users" may have been derelict, and even criminal, in using "flawed" machines. But WHY ARE WE VULNERABLE TO "FLAWED" MACHINES? Why should a private Bushite corporation, with very close ties to very, very rightwing causes, have ANYTHING TO DO WITH our elections AT ALL?

It would seem that this matter is fundamental to democracy.

When he won his senate seat for the first time in over 40 years
African Americans in Omaha, NB voted for a republican.

This shit runs deep!

Under the radar. This got virtually no attention that I saw.

There was yet another resignation in Florida last Tuesday of a US Attorney.



Another source

March 13, 2007
AP





His district includes Sarasota.


(emphasis added)

Under the radar indeed.