December 22, 2005
Diebold's Crack Up (?)
On Call Assignment Desk time.
Within the past few weeks:
1. The election supervisor for the county encompassing Tallahassee, FL saw voting results hacked before his eyes. He decertified Diebold. Jeb Bush noticed and wants a full review of Florida's voting machines.
2. Diebold chief Wally O'Dell -- he of "deliver the election" to Bush fame -- resigns.
3. CA refuses to certify Deibold yet, reversing a reversal.
4. St. Louis Co., MO decertifies Diebold machines.
5. North Carolina is apparently about to do the same.
Assigned to: Tom Edsall, Scott Shane, Sharon Theimer, Mark Memmott, Bloomberg News
Posted at 08:01 PM
Comments
Is this wrong?
Or is the counties not going with Diebold, but the city is?
City election board selects Diebold for new voting system
12/19/2005
The St. Louis Election Board voted today to select Diebold Election Systems to provide a new voting system for the city.
Diebold already has contracts with St. Charles and Jefferson counties, and won the contract for the city of Kansas City.
stltoday.com
sans-culotte | 12.22.05 11:46 PM
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Thanks for noticing, Hotline. I hope your assigned reporters actually bother to take you up on the assignment!
One notable item you missed, that is the Securities Fraud Class Action Litigation that seems to have held ease out old Wally. He resigned a day or two after we broke the news it was coming, and indeed, it came one day later:
http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002153.htm
...There will be much more to come on that front, and indeed several other firms have also filed against DBD since then.
For a swell roundup, of the key articles in the whole fine mess, see:
http://www.BradBlog.com/Diebold.htm
BradBlog | 12.23.05 12:16 AM
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Well, the horse is nine miles away from this barn. Best we get new locks, no?
David Aquarius | 12.23.05 12:27 AM
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I have to tell you Diebold is probably the most insecure, fraud proned voting company in the country and so is Sequoia.
I bet you every corrupt democrat & republican is getting elected by these machines, certainly not honest individuals like Bernie Sanders- they HAVE no real voting machines in most of Vermont.
At this point its time to can the whole thing called Diebold/Sequoia, and either use AutoMark or just simple freaking ballots with pens. I see no reason to use fraud-enabled machines anywhere.
Right | 12.23.05 01:06 AM
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The story is correct. St. Louis County distinct, and about three times larger than the City of St. Louis rejected Diebold, opting for the crappy ES&S machines instead.
The City of St. Louis decided they wanted their crap Diebold style.
More info on the St. Louis decision today and the intense last minute drama surrounding it at http://www.bradblog.com/archives/00002189.htm
BradBlog | 12.23.05 03:08 AM
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1. The election supervisor for the county encompassing Tallahassee, FL saw voting results hacked before his eyes. He decertified Diebold. Jeb Bush noticed and wants a full review of Florida's voting machines.
Link?
rosignol | 12.23.05 04:13 PM
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Adding to bradblog above
St. Louis (city) is a distinct entity and is separate from St. Louis County (officially noted in the statutes as a city not located within a county, IIRC).
joe student | 12.23.05 04:35 PM
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Can we please go back to paper ballots & paper trails now?
The only reason we are at this juncture is because some seniors in Florida got confused by a Democrat-designed ballot, and then some telemarketing firm in Texas scammed them into believing they were disinfranchised.
Fen | 12.23.05 04:47 PM
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India has a top notch digital election system. It had functioned near flawlessly for elections in that 1+ billion citizen country. Maybe this is one service where outsourcing to India would be a really good idea... Seriously.
Eric Anondson | 12.23.05 09:10 PM
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Give me a NY mechanical lever and three local ladies running the station any election day of the year.
Dusty | 12.24.05 03:14 AM
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Wow, the DNC clones at Hotline has scored another scoop. Odd, they don't report on the vote fraud in St. Louis, the fact that more people voted in Milwaukee in 2004 that there are eligible adults, and that Pennsylvania was closer than Ohio and the lines were longer in republican areas. The Hotline Clones win again--continue to spew only news favorable to democrats, censoring their misdeed(can you say Barrett Report), and forever earning the right to get invited to the cool, cocoon parties in D.C.
Karen | 12.24.05 09:03 AM
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Is this the political nightmare for 2006 in states like New York, as they enter the world of computerized voting?
Bob Fois | 12.25.05 04:42 AM
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