Guest Blogged by John Gideon of VotersUnite.org
“The manufacturer of voting machines under scrutiny in Sarasota County accused a House Democrat Tuesday of trying to ”intimidate” and ”unduly influence” a Florida appeals court. The move by Election Systems & Software comes days after Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald, D-Calif., chairwoman of the House Administration Committee, wrote a letter to the First District Court of Appeal in Tallahassee. She said she was ”concerned” that a lower court judge had declined to give Democrats access to the software used in voting machines in the contested District 13 congressional election.” // “Voting equipment suppliers built faulty machines and election officials failed to test it properly,” say studies released Tuesday about the slow vote count in November’s election.
A laptop-sized piece of equipment at each polling place that was supposed to total up and transmit the results from each precinct apparently had multiple problems” say reports from Cook Co. Illinois….
The dispute over the race to replace Rep. Katherine Harris continued with a voting machine manufacturer accusing a congresswoman of trying to intimidate the courts. LINK
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Well, Well. The last time somebody in Utah wanted to use a scanner system, the Diebold lawyers got flown in on the governors private jet and that somebody lost their job.
Watch it guys!
What audacity for a private company that has a long history of blackmailing public officials to make such a complaint. They have a probem when someone acts in the interest of accountable and auditble elections because it would put these shysters out of business. It’s incredible that the criminals running these voting machine companies aren’t in prison, never mind, out of business. They traitors against democracy. As usual, the Overwhelmingly Fascist Media (discredited in the face of the world) is failing to properly report the news, as usual.