Diebold won Alabama Contract

[Firenze777]

Local TV news site posted this:

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- The state has hired a firm to oversee Alabama's new statewide voter registration system.

Diebold Election Systems put in a bid for $2.3 million and won the contract, NBC13 reported.

The effort is a part of the federally mandated "Help America Vote" act.

The new system will replace a system that was implemented nearly 20 years ago.

Various counties across the state use their own independent voter systems, too.

http://www.nbc13.com/news/4545041/detail.html?subid=10101622

So what does that mean? They handle the registration system or the voting machines and tabulators? I didn't hear anything about the bidding process before this announcement. I knew we already had trouble with the tabulators......this is NOT good.

[dogday]

1. Montana Has Revoked It's Voting Machines Until The Votes

can be backed up with a paper ballot. I think the idea would be to see how Montana was able to achieve this and take it state by state. This is a touchy subject with me. I do not, repeat do not trust the machines, Diebold especially....

[jody]

2. The system in question is for voter registration not voting. n/t

[shance]

3. What system in question?

n/t

[jody]

4. The one in the original post, "statewide voter registration system". n/t