Aug 25-26 Diebold shows its wares in Mecklenburg County

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

Gov Easley signed the voter verified paper ballot bill into law today. Will we be able to hold this new found protection?

Not if Diebold has it's way:

Diebold has an exhibit booth at the NC County Commissioner's
Convention --
Exhibit Show, Thursday-Friday, Aug. 25-26, The Westin Charlotte in
Mecklenburg County

Their booth is listed near the bottom of the page.
http://www.ncacc.org/annualconf/2005exhibits.html

Will Mecklenburg County Commissioners be impressed?
Will the BOE be suckered?
Will Mecklenburg residents be taken by surprise?

If Mecklenburg would buy the Diebold machines, the machines may do as they did in California this July, with a 20% failure rate, including Blue Screens of Death and printer breakdowns.
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?
option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=6&Itemid=30
or
http://tinyurl.com/9jwxe


officials would insist that this is an emergency - take the paper
ballot printer off these expensive machines.

Bob Cordle (State Board of Elections member)of Mecklenburg had
pushed hard for paperless electronic verification systems to take
the place of voter verified paper ballots.

Mecklenburg will likely be one of the Pilot Program Counties, that
will test "alternative vote verification systems."


We must keep touchscreens/DREs out of Mecklenburg County, or this
county will be paperless again by 2008.

If you care about how your vote is counted or cast, please help us
to protect your county, email me at [e-mail]

or go to www.ncvoter.net and click on the "email" button.

Mecklenburg is one of our unprotected counties right now.