Fitrakis et al: American democracy hangs by a thread in Ohio

[liam97]

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2004/986

[tandem5]

1. good article, thanks n/t

[Quakerfriend]

2. thanks for this post! n/t

[seito]

3. This is good news...

"On January 6, Congress is scheduled to vote on whether or not to approve the tally of electors, including Ohio's tainted 20 votes. Conyers and the other US Representatives present made it clear more public hearings will be held before then."

[liam97]

4. Note last line

[seito]

5. And this

In 2001, a host of US Representatives, most from the Black Caucus, asked that the tainted Bush electors be challenged. This year at least 14 members of the House of Representatives will demand an immediate "investigation of the efficacy of the voting machines and new technologies used in 2004 election, how election officials responded to the difficulties they encountered, and what we can do in the future to improve our elections systems and administration."

Their action required the consent of a single Senator, which did not come in 2001. As the battle to save democracy rages in Ohio and elsewhere, January, 2005, could be very different.

..

Do you think 14+ members of the House will stand to contest the election on Jan 6th? How many members actually stood to contest the election in 2001? I am amazed at how far Rep Conyers is going with this. He and all the others are heroes. We need to figure out a way to acknowledge their tremendous service. We need to let the other Reps know that this is what we EXPECT from our representatives.

[liam97]

6. I think

House members will contest the election. But the question is what President Kerry will do

[Vidar]

7. Great article. Thanks for posting.

[SueZhope]

8. I'm confused, about part of the article

Is this different then Triad situation? or is Triad and Diebold the same company?
is this a different development that i missed? :shrug:

Read this:

On Tuesday, demonstrators staged the latest in a long string of protests at the statehouse.  And at an evening hearing in Toledo, stunning new sworn testimony revealed that Diebold technicians have tainted official voting machines before a recount could be done, irrevocably compromising the process. 

[liam97]

9. May be the mean Triad?

[SueZhope]

10. its strange

for they mention Triad latter.
It seems like a different development?


Im surprised with 3 people who worked on that , no one would pick that up?

[kk897]

12. as I read it, the Diebold issue was entirely different

and brought to light in an entirely different hearing.

[SueZhope]

15. I emailed them to hopefully find out n/t

[SueZhope]

17. you were correct

What FreePress said:

No, it is a different issue. Triad is name of the company. Diebold is the name of the company. Two different companies, two different counties.

[Igel]

13. One Triad technician

becomes "Triad technicians" becomes "Diebold technicians."

And the best we have is suspicion that he did something wrong. (Will somebody interview the guy already?)

[liam97]

14. The meat of the article

is not affected

[Joe Chi Minh]

11. Brilliant article.

eom

[RaulVB]

16. Kick