Diebold files protest in Louisiana to submit bids for voting machines

[finecraft]

http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/capital/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1109314580261010.xml

(snip) BATON ROUGE -- A company barred from bidding on 5,000 new voting machines has filed a protest with state officials alleging that Secretary of State Fox McKeithen used an "arbitrary, discriminatory and illegal" process to select the three finalists who will bid on them.

Diebold Election System Inc. filed a letter of protest late Wednesday over the decision to disqualify it from submitting bids or proposals for $47 million worth of machines.

The letter of protest, filed with state procurement officer Denise Lea, said that McKeithen's office refused to certify the company because it failed to meet six of 116 points in standards drawn up by the office. Landis claimed that the three companies certified also failed to meet some of the 116 points.

In his letter, Landis said the company was certified by the state in 2001 with similar equipment, although it did not win the bid to supply voting machines at that time. He said the current generation of machines has been improved over what the state OK'd in 2001 and has been certified under federal procedures. (end snip)

[jus_the_facts]

1. Now that ol' Fox is *disabled*....I hope they don't change to those....

....machines....our pull lever booths are juuuust FINE how they are...I remember the first election the Diebold machines were used in New Orleans they used the excuse that HUMIDITY screwed up the machines...well here in La. it's ALWAYS HUMID!!! :eyes:

[Hippo_Tron]

2. But on the bright side, it made a very effective attack ad against Terrell

And now that tramp is out of politics and not sitting in the US Senate. One Republican Senator is enough, I'm VERY glad that we don't have two.

[Hippo_Tron]

3. If fox keeps Diebold out of LA, I will vote for him next time

Although I doubt that he will be running for re-election considering his accident. Considering that Democratic Secretary of State, Kathy Cox, wasn't trustworhty enough to keep Diebold out of Georgia, I'll take any trustworthy SoS Dem or Repuke.

[romwriter]

4. anyone wearing their tinfoil hat?

If diebold suddenly gets into the bidding, would any of you wonder how accidental Fox's accident was?