MELTDOWN '07: Diebold Touch-Screens Flipping in Memphis Mayoral Election

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MELTDOWN '07: Diebold Touch-Screens Flipping in Memphis Mayoral Election
Tight Three-Way Race Falling Victim to Crappy Voting Technology - Who Could Have Predicted It?
RELATED: Federal Bill That Wouldn't Have Corrected the Problem - Rush Holt's HR 811 - Back 'In the Freezer' in the House, According to Roll Call...

We were in Nashville a couple of months ago, at a meeting of the Davidson County Board of Elections. We tried to warn them that they would run into trouble with their ES&S touch-screen voting machines, probably sooner, rather than later. But the kool-aid drunk Republicans on the board would have none of it. "Paper ballots are the biggest scam ever perpetrated on America," one of them told us. To our astonishment, he actually seemed to believe himself.

That GOP blend must be some very tasty Kool-aid.

Meanwhile, the nice Democrats who were in the majority on the board, sat there and said and did nothing. They were very very nice. And completely clueless...

COMPLETE REPORT: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5089


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The Time is Now for Accountability...

COMPLETE REPORT: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5087

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1. When will they toss those things into trash cans? n/t