As you know, those “glitches” in our elections are never Diebold’s fault, or that of any of the Electronic Voting Machine Vendors who supply the equipment that doesn’t actually work. It’s always an untrained pollworker, or a voter who didn’t read the instructions, or too darn much humidity.
So it wasn’t Diebold’s fault when Diebold’s machines failed to work or to count absentee ballots by the thousands on Tuesday in Cuyahoga County, Ohio’s Primary Election.
Look! Here’s proof!
Secondly, some precincts have more machines on the blink that those that were working. This was due in part to dozens of Election Day technicians, or EDTs, not showing up on Tuesday.
The EDTs are volunteers trained to fix any problems with the electronic Diebold voting machines.
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Mark Radke, a spokesman for Diebold, said, “In fact, we went out to some of the precincts to direct some of the poll openings because some people didn’t show up. Within two or three minutes with a little direction, people would have had the equipment up and running with no problem at all.”
As of 5pm Wednesday, Cuyahoga County was still hand-counting the 17,000 absentee ballots which the Diebold machines, through absolutely no fault of Diebold’s, were unable to count as Diebold had promised.
No word yet on whose fault it wasn’t that Diebold’s paper-trail printers kept jamming all day, or on the 70 Diebold memory cards (otherwise known as thousands and thousands of ballots) which went missing. But we know that wasn’t Diebold’s fault either. Though perhaps the part about them being so incredibly easy for anybody to change the data on those cards in about 30 seconds while they’re “missing” could be Diebold’s fault.
Nah. It’s probably just the humidity.
And Wally O’Dell was forced to resign because of high humidity, I suppose.
When the MSM finally changes the word "glitch" to "disaster", nobody except us 6 or 7 will notice (except for my hero in Ohio that slammed one on the floor)
I hear Diebold is coming out with a new model which will be released November 1. It will be called the Diabolical Denial Zx.
And the courts can’t do anything about it because a new Czar in Chief is being appointed (Raw Story here).
Wow, Sandra Day O’Connor travels around talking about a republican dictatorship, and now Justice Ginzburg calls the plan "Soviet" (see link above).
I guess "fault" depends on how one looks at it. There is the Diebold Soviet In Chief way and the highway.
Hey Brad, my copier at work keeps on jamming too. It must be another Diebold plot!!!
We did everything right, it is the results that are wrong, not us.
That pattern of "reasoning" seems prevalent anywhere there is an electronic voting machine these daze.
For Noesis: If the copier in your office keeps jamming, and your boss refuses to fix or replace it, he or she is a fool, wouldn’t you agree? Shouldn’t you be looking for a new job? Why continue working for such a clod?
The issue isn’t whether every election machine is perfect. It goes way beyond that. The companies making these machines are corrupt, as witnessed by the criminal history of their founders and the recent resignation of Wally O’Dell at the same time Diebold was socked with three class-action suits. All of these companies, furthermore, have incestuous relationships with the Republican party.
The burden of proof isn’t on citizens to prove a conspiracy. The burden is on the states to provide machinery that works; since they haven’t done this, they’re in the same category as your boss. The difference is…you can quit your job, but we can’t quit the electoral system.
20 memory cards found at this time. That leaves only 50 missing-pretty good, huh?
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Be afraid, very afraid!
Security Alert Issued to Mass Transit
"Homeland Security spokesman Russ Knocke said Wednesday there is no specific or credible intelligence to indicate U.S. transit systems are being targeted, and he described the notice, sent Tuesday, as a routine reminder for transit authority operators, state security advisers and police to remain on guard."
Just to distract us from this Train Wreck IMHO
Our nemesis Blackwell is a busy guy in the 6th circuit. No wonder he needs those Ohio coins and pension monies. He is spending major money defending lawsuits against him by most every political party, except republicans. I have compiled a list for your viewing pleasure:
Stewart v Blackwell
Lawrence v Blackwell
Blankenship v Blackwell
Beacon Journal v Blackwell
Spencer v Blackwell
Summit County v Blackwell
Miller v Blackwell
Sandusky County v Blackwell
Nader v Blackwell
BB2: "Just to distract us from this Train Wreck IMHO"
Ummm…WHICH train wreck would that be???
Wish somebody in the MSM would define the word "glitch," as they seem to assume that the public knows all about the nuances of the word. Nothing like an "explanation" for election problems.
Crack, insightful reporting, yessiree…
"I’m glitchin’, and I don’t know where to scratch…"
shw
I suppose that in the cosmic scheme of things, the horrendous mess this country is now in is a "glitch" too. Aren’t catch-all dismissive nouns grand?
Hi Peg C, in the cosmic sea, yes, that’s what they explained to me. On the other hand, true love can make a blade of grass stand up straight and tall. Whom ya gonna believe – Dylan or anyone else??? When, at last, are we all actually going to act, as in physically excising the cancer??? I’ll meet you at the Statue of Liberty at noon on the third Saturday after the war is over, OK? I’ll be the dood in the tinfoil hat
If this is what it takes to get paper ballots and hand counts, then maybe it will not be a complete disaster. We need to start articulating, over and over, that the solution to providing transparency and verifiability is simple: paper ballots and hand counts, especially of federal elections and statewide elections. If it requires simplifying ballots, then that is what must be done.
Soul Rebel
I was talking about the voting, but there are of course quite a few railroads heading for disaster!
12 of the top 15 articles at BradBlog all pertain to the problems with the status of our ability to vote and the current elections just held.
I have seen 0 articles from the National News and only a couple form local news outlets – the guy trashing the machines in Ohio and the incomplete ballots here in Sacramento.
Beyond that one would think there is no problem.
Must be one of those magnetically levitated trains – can’t hear it until it hits you!
The only reason I know about the guy in Ohio is because Brad and Raw story covered it.
Czaragorn #13!
Hi there!! We might be wise to take out stock in Reynolds Aluminum. There’s an awful lot of tinfoil about and more and more being worn by more and more people every day…
Dredd #3 – I’m not surprised that Sen. Grassley would want a soviet style oversight of the Supreme Court. He was involved in a back and forth letter writing session with a scientist who was trying to reason with him about the exit poll/voting result sham of the 2004 election asking him to require Edison/Mitofsky to release the results of the poll.
At one point the scientist exclaims that he and 9 other scientists who released a report about the impossible likelihood of the results were “not stupid”. Grassley is unfazed and repeatedly sends letters back saying everythings just fine. I found it to be one of the most maddening things I have ever read about the affair.
I just figured it out! People in the news media ARE MACHINES. They’re just standing up for their own kind!
Larry Bergan:
Well, Blackwell pulled a quick one in Clermont County (near Cincinnati) also. When the PubliTrash election board locked the only Dem assistant supervisor out, our SOS was called and he refused to act. In Ohio the BOE MUST have both parties overseeing the final counts.
I forgot all about Max Headroom, you don’t suppose O’reilly….
No!
Yeah, and I once had a roofer tell me–after my new roof resulted in flooding in every room in my house–that the new roof wasn’t the problem.
I asked what he said the problem was.
His response?
"The rain."
So I guess in Ohio it’s the votes that are the problem. If no one had cast any, the machines wouldn’t have malfunctioned.
These continual so called glitches are deliberate to give diebold access to the election results where they can then ajust and tamper with them.
The chaotic way they are manifesting is a very thick smoke screen.