Voting Machine Alert in CA
Nov 20th, 2005 at 6:29 pm by Susie
Via Dave Johnson at Seeing the Forest:
Apparently the Republican Secretary of State in California may be stealthily REVERSING the previous Democratic Secretary of State’s decertification of Diebold paperless voting machines! Raw Story and Brad Blog have stories about this (links below). Here’s a summary: Democratic Secretary of State Shelley had decertified Diebold machines as dangerous to democracy. (He also sought to prosecute the company for lying to state officials.) Then, after the recall and Schwarzenegger’s election Shelley was forced out of office on contrived charges, with a Republican appointed in his place. Now there is funny business going on and it looks like Diebold may be coming back. I tracked down a new document [Note - PDF] outlining requirements for voting machines, and the previous requirement that they produce paper ballot backups is NOT on the list.
That’s how we’ll be voting in Bucks County next year. No paper back up. Nothing.
Those weren’t contrived charges–Shelley self-destructed because he (1) was an abusive boss (2) who did not respect the line between his official duties and campaign activities. Let’s not make a hero out of every Dem who happens to hold office.
Which has nothing to do with a paperless voting machine system, prone to hacking, sold by one of two members of a duopoly run by hacks, felons and right-wingers. Thanks for the update.