Utah County Clerk Under Attack for Questioning Diebold Machines

[kpete]

Kpete, did not see ELECTION THREAD but thought I would post this:



Utah County Clerk Under Attack for Questioning Diebold Machines
by Clifflyon
Tue Mar 28, 2006 at 11:45:21 AM PDT
I just got off the phone with Utah Emery County Clerk Bruce Funk who is under fire for bringing to light his concerns about the Diebold voting machines delivered to his office. He is a soft spoken man and a classic patriotic American in the Utah tradition. As I write this, he documenting the events of last night (which I will post) in which Utah State Officials came down to Emery County and excluded Bruce from a series of closed door meetings with Diebold officials and county commissioners after which Bruce was encouraged to resign.

“They made me a pretty nice offer if I resign, but then I thought, no, if I resign, then what kind of person am I after all these years of protecting our voting rights”.

Thankfully, Bruce is completely unaware of the kind of tactics that have been used against whistleblowers in other states who have dared to expose the myriad of technical and ethical problems with the way Diebold machines have been shoved down out throats.

Utah biggest daily, the Salt Lake Tribune quoted Funk:

Diebold's $40,000 estimate is exaggerated to frighten other clerks from questioning the machines' integrity, Funk said. "What they are really saying is, 'We don't want anyone else to think of doing this.'

“ Commissioner Ira Hatch said Emery County will go forward with the Diebold machines.”. "We've decided we are going have Diebold come and go through these machines and see if they are compromised," he said, adding the company may be able to work with them on reducing the cost.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/28/134521/609

[wtbymark]

1. Don't question the machines!!!!!

The machines are fine, it is YOU that is unpatriotic! :sarcasm:

[zbdent]

2. Oh, my God!

There's lefties in Utah?

:evilgrin:

[JimDandy]

4. Bruce Funk is Republican - Integrity is non-partisan

The County Clerk for Salt Lake County (the largest county in Utah), Sherry Swensen, is a democrat and has been pushing Diebold machines for years. It's really important that we recognize who are the real election reform activists, no matter what color their stripes are. Utah has a small group of progressive democrats, independents, greens, libertarians and one republican working for election reform, but not one mainstream democrat in Utah has publicly stepped forward to oppose the black boxes. If I'm wrong on that, PM me -- let's get to work!
JD

[Peace Patriot]

3. WTF? "...we are going tohave Diebold come and go through these machines...

...and see if they are compromised." --Commissioner Ira Hatch

Now THAT is hilarious! DIEBOLD is going to "see if they are compromised"?!!! Right.

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Add another hero to American Revolution II: BRUCE FUNK!

:patriot: :applause: :patriot: :applause: :patriot: :applause: :patriot: :applause: :patriot: :applause:

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Latest news:

California voters sue the state over Diebold:
www.VoterAction.org--recently announced--is suing the state of California and 18 Calif county registrars on behalf of 25 California voter/plaintiffs, on the illegal Diebold "certification" by Schwarzenegger appointee Bruce McPherson.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2180496

Maryland rejects Diebold:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x418263

Florida - anti-trust accusations against Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, re: heroic Florida election official Ion Sancho:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2183630
http://www.tbo.com/news/politics/MGBKSY8W8LE.html


Some resources for American Revolution II:

www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.verfiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.votetrustusa.org (news of this great movement from around the country)
www.UScountvotes.org (statistical monitoring of '06 and '08 elections)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)
www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.bradblog.com (also great, and devoted to election reform)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)* :patriot: :applause: :patriot:
Sign the petition (Russ Holt, HR 550, great bill-has 169 sponsors). http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html
www.votepa.us (well-organized local group of citizen activists in Pennsylvania, where important legal issues are at stake, including state's rights over election systems)

www.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
www.johnbonifaz.com (running for Massachusetts Sec of State on strong election reform and antiwar platform)

*Some tributes to TruthIsAll, who is very ill:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417231
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x675477

Also of interest:

Bob Koehler (-- four recent election reform initiatives in Ohio, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet; the election theft machines and their masters are now dictating election policy!)
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk

Bob Koehler's latest: "Take this box and stuff it" (3/16/06)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col337.htm

Amaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and ALL election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!

:think: :patriot: :woohoo: :patriot: :think:

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"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it." --Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

[glitch]

5. They're more openly acting more and more like the mafia every day.

I bet they even use blackmail and physical threats. Bribes are a given.

[stillcool]

6. ...here's another link...

to the newspaper article
http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3646075
[e-mail] <[e-mail]>

[file83]

7. The Vote-inator: Rise of the Machines

[JimDandy]

8. Kick n/t

[nicknameless]

9. K&R

They took Kevin Shelley down; they're threatening Ion Sancho.
IT'S TIME TO GET THE MOB OUT OF OUR ELECTIONS!!!

:grr:

[Peace Patriot]

10. Hey, kpete, I just added this thread to my list of resources for

American Revolution II, and I changed the title to "Utah county clerk fights back."

It works as well as clifflyon's downer title, "Utak county clerk under attack...".

But there is a great psychological advantage to stating it in the positive. Another hero steps up to the plate!

The text reveals that Bruce Funk has resisted the temptation to resign. "...if I resign, then what kind of person am I after all these years of protecting our voting rights”.

He's fighting back! That should be the news!

[kpete]

12. cool

[Peace Patriot]

11. A new resource for fighting back!

See the DU front page today!

The Voter Confidence Resolution
Dave Berman, author, “We Do Not Consent”
Tel: [phone]
[e-mail]
http://tinyurl.com/rlnr2 (“We Do Not Consent”)
http://guvwurld.blogspot.com (GuvWurld blog main page)
http://tinyurl.com/amryg (Voter Confidence Resolution

:applause: :applause: :applause:

[Wilms]

13. K&R n/t

[Bill Bored]

14. It's a grand Funk railroading! nt

[JimDandy]

15. GREAT TITLE!... Can I steal it?

:applause:

JD

[Bill Bored]

16. Sure I'm easy! nt