Just to be clear: this WAS struck down by the courts, right? So this is just a reveal of what we've known all along: Bush and his appointees are fascist Nazi scum. But Georgia is still free of this taint, right? (If not free of Diebold.)

Re: Diebold et al--

More shocking voting machine stories are coming to light on BBV--see here for breaking story.

"Two testing labs in Huntsville, Alabama need to be visited by people with badges, guns and search warrants. The small offshoot office of Ciber Labs, run by Shawn Southworth, and the Wyle Labs office which has been supervised by Jim Dearman, are responsible for repeatedly certifying defective voting machines that violate Federal Election Commission standards.

1. New California report confirms that a security problem identified by Harri Hursti affects both touch-screens and optical scans – Diebold Election Systems’ whole product line.

2. Records obtained by Black Box Voting show that Diebold executives lied to the Arizona Secretary of State, the Cuyahoga County Board of Elections, and to hundreds of elections officials throughout the U.S. about the existence of specific defects.

3. Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell withheld crucial information on security defects from other secretaries of state, from the Election Assistance Commission(the EAC; federal overseers), and Ohio’s election officials.

4. Evaluations conducted by Black Box Voting in San Joaquin, Marin, and Alameda counties (Calif.) reveal that a critical paper audit component is missing for all absentee and mail-in ballots, and also for RECOUNTS. (Black Box personnel were hired by the Libertarian Party to conduct inspections.)

5. The state of California has released a report in the aftermath of the failed testing of Diebold products, expressing horror that those products ever made it out of the federal testing labs. Dr. David Jefferson of Lawrence Livermore Labs led the panel that wrote the failure analysis report.

These issues demonstrate that voting machine testing labs may be complicit in approving defective voting systems, that a secretary of state withheld information on defects, and that Diebold has demonstrated a pattern of corrupt practices unrestrained by any oversight process at the federal or state level. "

(lots more at the link above)

Thanks for keeping us up to date on BBV's excellent work, Catherine A.

With all the activists across the country who are doing this backbreaking work for the rest of us, Diebold et al is being exposed.

It has truly been one of the biggest CON jobs of the century.

I know I appreciate the work being done by researchers and scientists nationwide. Many heartfelt thanks to each and every one of you!

I join Kira in thanking you Catherine A.

The voting machine issue is the largest single issue that is between democracy and demockcrazy at the moment.

Time to find a Fitzgerald type to take a look at the widespread fraud taking place and taking american down.

Jim #1

Yes, the appellate court affirmed the district court.

Some of the state senators who made the law have vowed to take it to the Supreme Court.

They will loose there too.

Hey religious conservatives it'd make sense for you WHACKOS to "join" Michael Scanlon in jail!!!!!!

Michael Scanlon who says all you religious conservatives are "whackos" is now charged with conspiracy to defraud, fraud and has been arrested

Proves that religious conservatives are anything BUT religious or conservative!!!!!!!!!!!

The only actual REAL conservative christian belongs to a real church!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU ARE FAKE ZIONISTS BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!!