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sonias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-24-09 09:42 PM
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Possibly faulty voting machines still used by Collin County
Well actually all of the machines used in Texas are possibly faulty. But at least we're finally starting to see some coverage of the Diebold/Premiere history eraser button issue.

Pegasus News 3/24/09
Possibly faulty voting machines still used by Collin County
By Bill Baumbach of The Collin County Observer

It was back in 2003 that Collin County made the decision to purchase all electronic, touch screen voting machines from Diebold. They have been used in every election since then.

Many, including this author, have expressed concerns that the use of digital voting machines did not provide the essential safeguards needed to absolutely assure that an election result was correct and honest. Without an auditable paper trail, all election audits come down to trusting that the equipment is totaling the votes correctly.

Elections are run, not on trust, but on verification.


:nuke:

Sonia
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 05:45 AM
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1. Not "possibly faulty" but actually faulty.
Edited on Wed Mar-25-09 05:46 AM by hobbit709
Any machine that I can't see the programming on and doesn't have a paper trail IS faulty by definition.l
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sonias Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-25-09 10:55 AM
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2. I agree with you 100%
And I agree that this is a real crisis of potential election fraud on a wholesale order. Yet rather than address a real threat to our elections in Texas - something that can steal an election - in Texas the Lege chooses to focus on photo voter ID. A threat that is extremely hard to organize and implement to steal an election.

Even the crew in Clay County Kentucky would not have been stopped by photo voter ID. That was an inside job.

The audit log eraser button is an inside job too, but nobody in the Lege wants to think that Diebold/Premiere should also be prosecuted for election fraud. You would think at the very least our SOS would be conducting some kind of investigation. Don't hold your breath waiting for it.

:grr:

Sonia
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