Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
In a stunning reversal the North Carolina State Board of Elections decided to ignore state law and certify three voting systems for use in the state. Keith Long, an advisor to the Board of Elections who was formerly employed by both Diebold and Sequoia, has said that “none of them” could meet the statutory requirement to place their system code in escrow. Instead of rejecting all applications and issuing a new call for bids as required by law, the Board chose to approve all of the applicants. Long also said that it was not necessary to review the source code, even though state law requires it, because the ITA has already done that before federal qualification….
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In a stunning reversal the North Carolina State Board of Elections decided to ignore state law and certify three voting systems for use in the state. Keith Long, an advisor to the Board of Elections who was formerly employed by both Diebold and Sequoia, has said that “none of them” could meet the statutory requirement to place their system code in escrow. Instead of rejecting all applications and issuing a new call for bids as required by law, the Board chose to approve all of the applicants. Long also said that it was not necessary to review the source code, even though state law requires it, because the ITA has already done that before federal qualification….
I got a new name for these idiots…
Desperate Diebold!
How do you like?? 😀
Doug
Perhaps N. Carolina is like West Virgina, and needs some FBI informants during elections (link here).
These informants catch small fish, and unless the focus is on electronic voting machine fraud, these type stings will bring in only the small frye.
Remember the Clint Curtis story … it even involved Chinese spying and death of an investigator, yet the FBI has not done anything there in Florida that we know of.