Diebold hires top Dem for PR blitz
Former party chairman make the case for voting to California
By Ian Hoffman, STAFF WRITER
"With a phone call and a retainer, Diebold CEO Walden O'Dell has launched former Democratic National Committee chairman Joe Andrew on a 50-state ambassadorship for electronic voting."
Here is some propaganda by Andrew in the article:
"Andrew said computer scientists and e-voting activists are standing in the way of a promising technology, an ATM-like voting computer with such a low error rate that more votes count. And that, said Andrew, should work to the benefit of Democrats."
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_2958901 The Diebold machines that crashed and burnt, at a failure rate between 10-20%
http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.phpoption=com_content&task=view&id=96&Itemid=30 BACKGROUND ON JOE ANDREW, DRE LOVE AFFAIR NOT OLD, ANDREW ANTAGONISTIC OF VOTING INTEGRITY IN 2001, AS WELL:
There's more. John Fund, author of the book, Stealing Elections, writes, "Joe Andrew, chairman of the Democratic National Committee until 2001, is a senior adviser to a biotech firm that owned several Internet companies.
He says the conspiracy theories aren't healthy and last month he told the Maryland Association of Election Officials that "When it comes to electronic voting, most liberals are just plain old-fashioned nuts." While conservatives were skilled at coordinating their messages, he added, "that does not mean there is a vast right-wing conspiracy trying to steal votes in America, as the loudest voices on the left are saying today....
Mr. Andrew said the people obsessed about DRE manipulation are either computer experts with impressive technical knowledge but little practical experience with elections or left-leaning computer users who are conspiratorial by nature. He noted with regret that they have been joined in their hysteria by prominent Democrats who "are rallying behind the anti-DRE bandwagon in a big election year because they think that this movement is good for Democrats."
Mr. Andrew appears to be batting for the other side.
http://www.ecotalk.org/CountTheBallots.htm