Clark on Electronic Voting Machines.

[in_cog_ni_to]

I just ran across this post on the Clark blog and thought DUers who didn't see C-SPAN the other day when Clark spoke at the Pancake Breakfast, would like to read/see this. He catches on fast and hits Diebold..hard!

Pancake Breakfast Campaign Event
12/20/03

Question: Can you speak to your opinions about the consolidation of radio, TV and news media ownership, and related to that, the emerging issues about computer voting machines?

Clark: Well, on the computer voting machines, let's take that first. There's a real rage going through the American public about these computer voting machines, because there's a man named Diebold , who's a Bush Ranger, and he's earned $100,000 or given $100,000 to the president. And apparently, he's sent a letter up saying that he was going to make sure, you know, he'd do his part to make sure President Bush gets reelected.

Problem is, that his company makes voting machines. And it scared people. And it should, because the voting machines -- at least the early versions -- as they were checked out, they had some programming problems and they apparently did not produce a paper record where they could be recounted.

But there are many different versions of voting machines. I was down in the state Democratic convention in Florida -- they have a real interest in voting machines in Florida. And they are displaying there the kinds of voting machines that actually mark a paper ballot. The only thing they do is, they give you the choice: you push it and it prints it out on a ballot, and then you got a hard copy. That's what we'll put in place.

But we must all be vigilant, at every locality across America. We must hold our public officials accountable for the right kind of voting machines. They must have a paper copy -- not that you voted, but who you voted for -- so that the election can be verified and validated if it's challenged. I mean, that's the rule, and we have to make it happen.

Video can be accessed at rtsp://video.c-span.org/project/c04/c04122003_clark.rm
(question begins 36:20 minutes into the video)

Or access the video at this page:
Gen. Wesley Clark (Ret.) Pancake Breakfast Campaign Event 12/20/03
http://www.c-span.org/Search/basic.asp?BasicQueryText=wesley+clark&SortBy=date

[goobergunch]

1. There's a man named Diebold?

Strange, I've never heard of him.

I have heard of Scott O'Dell, CEO of Diebold.

[in_cog_ni_to]

2. It was a JOKE!

Maybe you should watch the C-SPAN video?