Guest Blogged by Alan Breslauer
Lou Dobbs and Kitty Pilgrim report on the frenzy to hire computer science graduate students by state officials fearing an e-voting machine disaster on election day. Dobbs also has a brief report on the Supreme Court decision upholding (for now) the new Arizona law requiring photo IDs of voters.
The text-transcript of Friday’s segment on Lou Dobbs Tonight follows in full…
Kitty Pilgrim reports.
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KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On the campus of the University of California at Davis, e-mail flyers try to recruit graduate students from one of the top computer security programs in the country. The job pays $350 a day to troubleshoot electronic voting computers at local polling places in Yolo County, California on Election Day. Most poll workers are volunteers, and many are senior citizens with limited knowledge of advanced technology. So, election officials decided to go to the experts for help.
FREDDIE OAKLEY, YOLO COUNTY ELECTION OFFICIAL: Every single day something pops up, and we discover that there’s a little software glitch here or a little hardware glitch there.
So I figured graduate students in computer science, they are pretty capable of fixing just about any kind of hardware or software issue that might arise during the day that would cause a delay at the polls. I’m really looking to avoid delays for my voters and to keep these machines secure from tampering.
PILGRIM: California’s been on the forefront of working to avoid a disaster, with some of the most extensive rules on electronic voting security. But because of the size and complexity of the election, California is also among the top 10 states expected to have difficulties with new e-voting machines this Election Day.
In past elections and primaries, computer crashes of machines and electronic poll registration have left workers frustrated. In many cases, voters were turned away, and told to come back later. Now, many states are recruiting troubleshooters for Election Day.
On the job search Web site Monster.com, listings entitled extra money working on elections. There are several job postings for positions in counties throughout Maryland. Monster.com tells us there’s been a steady increase in postings for computer technicians since September.
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PILGRIM: The election jobs come with eight hours of paid training and the advertisement on the flier in California also reads “it ain’t rocket science, but it’s too complicated for mere mortals.” And the real mystery is why after months of electronic voting problems, all this was left until the final weeks before the election, Lou.
DOBBS: If anyone is not worried about what’s going on happen in this election, I admire their confidence. Kitty, thank you very much. Kitty Pilgrim.
The U.S. Supreme Court today said the state of Arizona can require voters to present photo IDs at polling places. Now, the justices caution they were not ruling on the constitutionality of Arizona’s election law. That ruling simply allows the elections to take place with the ID law intact.
The high court justices noted that the facts in this case are hotly contested, and that federal courts still have to resolve other lawsuits challenging Arizona’s election law, leaving open the possibility that the will of the people might well be expressed in the state of Arizona.
Other then rebooting the voting machines, what are these computer experts going to do. Are they going to be allowed to open up the machines and fool with the coding on election day? I’m really having trouble with this one.
Is this complete stupidity on behalf of the election officials or something much more dangerous?
This election is heading toward chaos like a runaway freight train and virtually every “mistake” or “unusual event” will favor the Republicans as they always do. Hopefully, there will be teams of lawyers and observers who will at least document the “election” for history.
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Read North Korean Dictator Praises Diebold
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None of this is going to end well. The United States is totally compromised on a global basis.
ALL of the top politicians are being blackmailed, and GHW Bush is at the top of that list.
Interpol = Russian Mafia, and they know everything about 9/11. China knows too. The only people who don’t know are US citizens.
Russia was threatening and blackmailing Kobi Alexander over his direct role in 9/11, and the US “brought him in” to the witness protection program weeks ago. The recent claim of his arrest in South Africa is a smoke screen.
He’s in the US right now – and the Administration is protecting him. He knows EVERYTHING…Comverse Wiretaps, Blackmail, Ptech override of NORAD by Cheney – EVERYTHING.
Dov Zakheim didn’t just “lose track” of billions of dollars of DOD cash, he literally transferred it to Israel – and it wasn’t $2.3 Trillion – it was $7 TRILLION! Repeat – ISRAEL HAS $7 TRILLION OF US TAXPAYER DOLLARS STOLEN BY DOV ZAKHEIM – WITH THE COMPLICITY OF RUMSFELD.
Zakheim’s SYSPLAN technology guided the planes to their targets on 9/11.
Israel and their paid operatives (the entire Bush Cabinet) attacked America on 9/11.
Bin Laden does not exist.
Rumsfeld and Zakheim looted the US of $7 trillion!!!
Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bush, all of them are ON ISRAEL’S PAYROLL. All of them were directly involved in 9/11, and many foreign intelligence services have them dead-to rights, and are blackmailing them.
Mel Sembler is evil personified – and involved up to his eyeballs (Niger Forgery).
The Lieberman, GHW Bush, Cheney, Sembler connection needs to be revealed.
Mel Sembler hosted a fundraiser for Lieberman recently – EXPOSE THE CONNECTION.
This is FAR bigger than any election can solve.
Wild cornered animals – in the headlights.
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The AZ law makes me physically ill.
Got a pulse? Need money? Be a computer expert. You’ll be trained by a Diebold rep under ideal conditions, with glitches ignored and unmentioned. No problem will be your fault or anybody else’s. A computerphobe friend is doing it in Cuyahoga county. Truly the blind leading the blind. What BS.
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Yeah, Mel Sembler profited off the souls of America children and got an ambassabor appointment from the Bush crime family. The startling thing about it is that some parents were so afraid of their kids doing drugs, they let him!
Do not find out about this guy unless you’re willing to walk through the shadow of the valley of death, and through a forest of renamed and relocated drug rehabilitation
centersprison camps.