Wired magazine- "E vote memo is smoking gun"

[go west young man]

http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,73048-0.html

[Botany]

1. any guesses with which canidates the machines are slow on?

Bueller? Bueller?



But the memo, which the company sent to Florida election officials before the state's September primary,
revealed that the iVotronic machines had a flaw that sometimes caused machines to respond slowly to a
voter's touch "beyond the normal time a voter would expect to have their selection highlighted.

[unpossibles]

2. well, I'm sure that Bush fired the Florida US Attorney for not investigating this too, right?

RIGHT?

BWA! right.... :eyes:

[loudsue]

3. This needs to be posted in GD. Smoking gun, indeed!!!

There were several elections that were "improper" in the 2006 races, and NONE of them have been sufficiently reviewed. I really wonder if we wouldn't have had an untouchable majority if elections had been handled properly.

:kick::kick::kick:

[bahrbearian]

4. Man the fishing is starting to pick up, Its hard to keep up with this stuff.

We'll just have to start throwing them in the hold , without gutting them.

[formercia]

5. The machine should post a warning when running slow

We apologize, but Karl Rove is away from his desk at the moment and your vote may be approved, or not, as soon as he returns.

[Vincardog]

6. The telling quote

" Last year, ES&S, which did not return a call for comment, told the court that its machines performed with 100 percent accuracy and
worked as designed during the 2006 elections ."

[Peace Patriot]

7. When the Christine Jennings' lawyers took the matter to court, and requested to see

ES&S's source code--to figure out why 18,000 votes for Congress in Democratic precincts were 'disappeared' (in an election decided by some 300 votes)--ES&S responded that their "right" to profit from our election system and keep their 'TRADE SECRET,' PROPRIETARY vote "counting" programming code a SECRET, trumps the right of voters to know how their votes are being counted--even in an election as stinky as this one. And the judge agreed with ES&S!

It is THIS that is the problem. Not a private corporation "discovering" a flaw in our election system, back at corporate headquarters, and sending a letter to "FL Users" (our publicly funded election officials) to post a sign about it, or promising to submit it to secret, industry-controlled "testing" (ahem, "state" certification). These outages are possible BECAUSE our election system has been SOLD TO private, rightwing, Bush-donor corporations, who operate our election system in gangster fashion, just like Bush/Cheney run the federal government.

It's not the memo--"smoking gun" that it is. It's WHO wrote the memo, and why, and what that means about their private control of election results. The FL "users" may have been derelict, and even criminal, in using "flawed" machines. But WHY ARE WE VULNERABLE TO "FLAWED" MACHINES? Why should a private Bushite corporation, with very close ties to very, very rightwing causes, have ANYTHING TO DO WITH our elections AT ALL?

[The Doctor.]

8. Has that ruling been appealed?

It would seem that this matter is fundamental to democracy.

[peacetalksforall]

9. Every time I read a post that praises or semi-praises Hagel, I cringe.

[Botany]

12. Egg zack LEE

When he won his senate seat for the first time in over 40 years
African Americans in Omaha, NB voted for a republican.

This shit runs deep!

[seafan]

10. Florida US Attorney Paul Perez resigned Tuesday, March 13. His district includes Sarasota.

Under the radar. This got virtually no attention that I saw.

There was yet another resignation in Florida last Tuesday of a US Attorney.



Another source

March 13, 2007
AP

U.S. Attorney Paul I. Perez, appointed to represent the Middle District of Florida by President Bush in March 2002, said in a statement he has accepted a position as chief compliance officer with Fidelity National Financial Inc.

"It's unrelated. This is on his own terms," Amy Hanly, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office said of the timing of Perez's resignation. "This is a personal decision for him."

His announcement came only hours after Gonzales accepted responsibility Tuesday for mistakes in the way the Justice Department handled the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors and rejected calls for his resignation. Critics have said the firings were politically motivated.

.....

Perez managed more than 100 prosecutors who handled federal cases in 35 of Florida's 67 counties. The middle district encompasses a swath that includes the cities of Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa and Ft. Myers.

His district includes Sarasota.


(emphasis added)

[Old and In the Way]

11. Odd they'd mention Ft. Meyers, but not Sarasota.

Under the radar indeed.