Bradblog: Diebold's Toilet Paper Democracy - Photographic Essay

Blogged by Brad on 3/20/2006 @ 12:00pm PT...

EXCLUSIVE: Through the (Plastic) Looking Glass & Behind the Brown Door...
Diebold's Toilet Paper Democracy -- a Photographic Essay
How America's Votes Will be Counted (or not) in 2006 and Beyond...Unless Something is Done About it.

You've heard the reports of the new Diebold touch-screen voting machines which have recently been updated to include a so-called "voter-verified paper trail." You may also have heard how the...

You've heard the reports of the new Diebold touch-screen voting machines which have recently been updated to include a so-called "voter-verified paper trail."

You may also have heard how the printers they've added to produce these "paper trails" on their previously-paperless touch-screen voting machines are reported to jam up in test after test -- like the one last summer in California where some 33% of such machines failed due to screen freezes, software failures and paper jams.

You may have heard that Diebold actually includes a magnifying glass with each machine to help voters see these tiny, virtually unreadable "paper trails."

You may even have heard how the virtually uncountable thermal paper rolls, which scroll back into the machine after supposedly being "verified" by the voter, have turned up blank on some of the busiest machines at the end of Election Day -- as occurred in Lucas County, OH during the November 2005 Election in Toledo.

Now, for the first time, a hands-on examination of actual Diebold Accu-Vote TSx "election-ready" machines in Utah -- where the newly state-approved and purchased machines are just now being delivered across the state -- has been conducted by Security Innovations and computer security expert Harri Hursti. The examination was done in Emery County, UT with the approval of the county's elected official in charge of elections, Clerk-Recorder Bruce Funk.

FULL STORY, EXCLUSIVE PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002576.htm

it is our own damn fault as a nation. We have worked tirelessly to call this to the attention of our leaders. If they continue to ignore or let this slide, they will no longer be our leaders. It would seem the prospect of that would motivate them. If not, we are truly in deep shit.