{ED NOTE: This story, posted earlier today, was somehow corrupted and comments were lost. Now restored here. Apologies for whatever happened.}
The commissioners gave Sancho a green light to pursue a deal with a Louisville, Ky.-based company to provide voting equipment for disabled people. The company, IVS, was the last option on the table that would make Leon County compliant with federal elections law come the September primaries.
As BRAD BLOG readers know, Sancho is the hero who helped discover last December that Diebold optical-scan machines were hackable and could have their results flipped without a trace being left behind. Since that discovery, all three voting machine companies certified to do business in Florida, have refused to do so with Sancho. And Jeb Bush’s cronies in the FL Sec. of State’s office have been been attacking the 18-year elected Elections Supervisor Sancho ever since, even while acknowledging the grave security flaw he found in their systems. For them.
We particularly enjoyed this nugget from the Tallahasse Democrat coverage from which we’ve been quoting here:
The reply from one woman in the crowd: “How about taxpaying citizens?”
By the way, the Democrat has been doing a tremendous job of covering this story of late! Each of their reports have also included multi-media audio and video in addition to their written reports, so it’s worth clicking through to catch some of those. The report linked above also features a short video [WMV] interview with Sancho speaking after the meeting mentioned above.
As well, there is also a very enlightening one-hour audio interview with Sancho speaking to members of the Tallahassee Democrat editorial board concerning the problem he discovered with the Diebold machines in Leon County, attacks on him by both the State and the Voting Machine Companies, and other E-voting problems across the country.
Yesterday we covered the meeting — ironically enough, on the first day of Florida’s “Sunshine Week”, celebrating “open government” — which Jeb’s appointed Sec. of State Sue Cobb called in Tallahassee to put the heat on Sancho. It was to have been an open meeting, until Cobb closed it, slammed the door, and called the police to remove reporters from the hallway.
The Tallahassee Democrat coverage of the story included a short video of Sue Cobb explaining why she closed the meeting. We believe it’s worth a quick look to understand this woman’s reasoning for yet more secrecy in dealing with these issues of public importance and transparency.
— Video in Streaming Flash format…
— Video in Windows Media Player format…
Looks as if democracy survived for another day, at least.
Good thing them comments were erased
I had some nasty remarks about old "horseface" above
(whew)
drinking and blogging don’t mix
This woman can’t be for real. Not letting the press in for expediency? How about the publics right to know what our "elected" (installed) officials are doing? Hide everything and feed us sanitized crap. Well, at least Sancho is vidicated. If they had gone through with it the republicans would have been destroyed. Actually, democracy may have survived another day but it ain’t over by a long shot.
Yesterday I posted that I had sent Keith Olbermann a request to do a piece on this story. Perhaps if 5 0r 6 others also sent a request he might do it. His email is KOlbermann@msnbc.com Thanks and maby we can get some national coverage.
I heard this morning that Kathleen Harris has donated her entire fortune to her campaign so she can fight for "Integrity in Government".
LMAO
That’s Kathrine Harris
Barry
Just sent one myself.
I’d also written to C-Span and Lou Dobbs.
Hey everybody, flood ’em with e-mails. It’s the American way.
The more this crowd in Tallahassee shut out the media and ignore questions, the guiltier they look.
Mike, your statement is totally true in my mind if you change "look" to "are"