To win contract, Diebold offers the state a carrot

[InkAddict]

In the cutthroat battle over Ohio's election-machine upgrade, Ohio-based Diebold Inc. upped the ante on its competitors last week by playing the hometown card.

Diebold - under fire nationally for purported security flaws in its touch-screen voting system - offered to consider building all its voting machines for Ohio in-state if it wins a statewide contract, a company spokesman confirmed.

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/1060507915313300.xml

But questions are being asked! Hope springs eternal that it's not just lip service.

[DEMActivist]

1. Look out North Carolina and California

That's where Diebold manufactures the machines now. I guess since they already signed up for the machines, California and North Carolina can get screwed to make the Ohio sale, huh?

[short bus president]

4. do they do the optical scanning machines,

or just the touchscreens? Last 2 elections, I've marked a ballot with ink by completing an arrow and inserted the ballot into a scanner. Are those Diebold machines, too?

[Philosophy]

2. Play the trump card

Just drop the hint to the politicians who are responsible for approving the purchase of their machines that it would greatly help their chances of being reelected. ;) ;)

[cmd]

3. A lot of interesting names in the article

There has to be ghosts in those closets that need to come out.

[gristy]

5. So who's in Columbus who can get on this????

Come on, any DUers? I have a hard time believing that they will manufacture them in OH. And it certainly depends on what they mean by "building" them. I suspect the motherboard and any daughterboards are manufactured in China and they'll assemble the whole thing into a box in OH. This kind of bribe has no business being taken at the expense of democracy. NEED A DUer in COLUMBUS!. Pay their SOS a visit!

It's all BS.

[stickdog]

6. What a coincidence! Because if Bush wins next election, he promises to

do all his graft and looting in the United States!

Think globally -- lie, cheat and steal locally!