I guess the Diebold debacle of corruption has been reframed as a mail voting malaise in the above article from Utah, but It does cover some of the problems. In an editorial, no less! An obvious response to the articles in the WSJ, and NYT.

Hmmm, No mention of The Brad Blog.

Free Press - Wasserman/Fitrakis - Will the MSM finally write about election fraud ?

Link : Free Press/Will MSM Write About Elec Fraud

Election fraud is at one end of the spectrum, (criminal beyond-a-reasonable-doubt standard) a failing electronic system at the other (just open your eyes standard).

And all across the board is a lot of silence at the election official level.

As I read the article I wondered, "what standard does the official level use", then I noticed this sentence from the first link above:

"... following the disclosure of a number of serious security flaws in the systems ... " which "... are intended to remain in the hands of trusted election officials ..." (link here, bold added).

So that is the standard: put defective machines in the hands of officials who ask the voters to "trust us".

We are to take this as the apex of technology and political science in the US today, then trust, then wait:

"Nevertheless, Diebold plans to address the issue in an upcoming version of the product, which will use cryptographic keys to ensure that only authorised software is installed on the machine, Bear said. He could not say when this feature would be added, but said that it could be available in time for the November 7 general election in the US" (ibid).

"Trust us, we will fix it" is the position of the vendor, and the election officials get all google eyed waiting for another magic toy to come down the pike.

Which never happens.

{ed note: Commented deleted. Disinformation site.}

Catherine # 4

VERY INTERESTING!

Well NOW maybe we can make the news as the Attorney Generals office attempts to publically PROVE the machines can be altered, but NOT restored by $40,000 dollars worth of reformatting by the Diebold.

It's not like Funk or BBV tried to keep it secret! They disseminated photos of the crime scene on the internet! What are they going to prove in court? That BBV is stupid! How many years for that!

This has some parallels to Bill O'Reilly's suit of Al Franken.

The Catherine, above, is not Catherine A unless she's taken to signing her e-mail as "stooge@blackboxvoting.org" --- Impersonating others is nothing new for the Diebold squad.

Brad has been doing some excellent swordfighting with another member of the Diebold damage control squad, over on the Yahoo finance message boards.

Re: Catherine - Hi Wally. Please come back so Brad can engage in more conversation with you.

Had a feeling that site might be questionable. A year old, and about 7 post by the same guy. Wow, exciting place!

I can confirm that I never posted anything on this thread until right now. Whatever someone had posted under the name "Catherine" has been removed. I don't even know what it was--but I gather it was something someone hoped would damage me or Bev Harris or BBV.

That is pretty underhanded if someone is trying to give the impression they are me. To use my personal credibility, then post using my name so that people will quickly assume it is me, and then use it for their own agenda, is lower than low.

Thanks to Bev and everyone else who noticed this and helped to sort this out, and thanks Brad for removing that post.

Hi Larry,

It is a website that is known to be part of the ongoing campaign of disinformation about BBV.

I guess the attacks show that someone is running scared.

Catherine, the web site referenced by the impersonator is interesting. Apparently it was started about a year ago, under the fake name "Jean-Claude Van Camme" (which, by the way, is illegal) and was active for about three weeks, publishing only about a half-dozen articles, most of them bashing Bev Harris. The impression was that "Jean-Claude" was an election activist who opposed DREs but also had a personal vendetta against Bev Harris.

But after almost a year of silence, the web site is active again, and now it is not only bashing Bev Harris, but also extolling Diebold and bashing Diebold's competitors! The obvious conclusion is that the site is run by Diebold, and the "activist who has a personal vendetta against Bev Harris" business was just a ruse. I guess when they re-activated the site after 11 months of silence, they forgot about the charade they were originally supposed to be playing.

By the way, I replied to one of their articles here: https://bradblog.com/archives/00002851.htm#12

Update: he has been identified. This is stranger than fiction!

Diebold secretly hires Internet pornographer, to slander newspaper reporter and election integrity activists!

http://www.bbvforums.org...messages/2197/30502.html