Raging Grannies Smashed Diebold Voting Machine for Halloween(X)

[kster]

Voting Activists Smashed a Diebold Machine Today at SF Civic Center and Asked ***WILL THE NEXT ELECTION BE CONDUCTED FAIRLY?***

Election procedure reform IS proceeding, say voting rights activists in Sacramento and San Francisco, but FAR too slowly. "A very real and still present danger is the use of secret computer code controlled by private manufacturers of voting machines," said national voting rights activist Brent Turner.

We dramatized the failures of the voting machine industry. A Diebold TS Touchscreen Voting Machine, one of the worst offenders, was tried, sentenced, and smashed at our rally. Open Voting Foundation president, Alan Dechert, who participated in the rally, has examined the inner workings of one of the Diebold TS touch screen voting machines. Dechert said that "with the flip of a single switch inside, the machine can behave in a completely different manner compared to the tested and certified version." This very model is used widely in public elections in the United States. Dechert said that "mistakes, conflicts of interest, incompetence, and outright corruption are turning the issue of voting modernization into a national scandal."

The Raging Grannies performed songs about voter rights to start off the rally, followed by a trial of the Diebold Touchscreen Machine for "Crimes Against Democracy." Rally participants werre part of the jury, heard testimony against secret software, and witnessed justice delivered by a sledgehammer.

http://www.pacificariptide.com/pacifica_riptide/2007/10...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x485194

[rucky]

1. What I would pay to take a swipe at one of those!

GO RAGIN' GRANNIES!

[kster]

3. That makes two of us. I'm sure we

would have to wait in a very very long line.

[BlueJazz]

2. Servicing Computers at a bank, the Amazing "Piss-you-off" thing about Diebold

..is the fact that their software ALWAYS works perfect at the ATM machines
(I think the error rate is something like 3 transactions out of 67 million)..

..But yet these fuckers seem to have numerous "Errors" when it comes to voting..

..or...in short,,I smell a Rat. :)

[kster]

4. We start doing a second 100% hand count of the optiscan ballots

at the precinct immediately following the election and you would see how fast them voting machines would get up to snuff.

Someone has to police the electronic vote counting companies cause it sure isn't going to be the people that benefit from them, as we now know.