Blogged by John Gideon, VotersUnite.Org
The country’s largest supplier of voting machines, ES&S, is at it again. BRAD BLOG readers will remember last year’s extraordinary string of ES&S failures and meltdowns week after week during the primary elections and then general election across the country. Last year the excuse for late delivery of materials and other related failures in scores of states and counties was that everyone wanted materials all at the same time and ES&S was just too busy. So what’s their excuse this time?
According to John Washburn’s excellent blog Washburn’s World, election officials in Clark and Taylor Counties in Wisconsin are still awaiting delivery of Personal Electronic Ballots (PEB), memory cards, and paper ballots, and they have an election in just 12 days; April 3…
What does this late delivery mean to the counties? Well, first and foremost this is Wisconsin, which has a large “Snow Bird” population. Those are the folks who live up north in the spring, summer and fall, and down south during the winter months; “Snow Birds” are typically citizens of the northern states and tend to vote absentee. The state has less than 12 days to get the ballots, stuff the envelopes, get them into the mail and then hope they get to their intended addressees in time to mark the ballots and send them back before the deadline. Good luck.
Thanks to ES&S, that may not be possible now.
The other obvious reason that late delivery is a problem is that voting machines must be tested. “Logic and Accuracy” tests must be conducted to (theoretically) ensure the machines are accurate. Those tests cannot be performed until the county has the PEBs and memory cards and they must be performed in enough time to solve any newly revealed problems. Not that we’d expect any from ES&S, right?
No wonder Miller Co. Arkansas Election Administrator Robby Selph resigned from his job recently saying this about Election Systems and Software, Inc.:
Good luck Wisconsin!
Obviously there is no way in hell people can get the ballots, mark them up, AND get them back in time.
Surely America will be saved in time, before ’08, right??
I’d like to see PFAW argue away this one!
A Concerned Citizen, at post #1 asked “Surely America will be saved in time, before ’08, right??”
Ghouls of the Thor Hearne ACVR scandal have arisen, and it isn’t even halloween yet.
We now have a link to the new US Attorney in Arkansas, who was Rove’s point man on “voter fraud” (anti-minority dems), and Rove and the ACVR conspiracy.
Check this out:
(Link Here, emphasis added).
Before last year’s election, I posted this:
It turns out that Bradblog was on the right trail when this was happening behind the scenes:
(Bradblog Article, emphasis added).
Ney is now in prison where Gonzales and Rove should go … after all Scooter will be there too.
Bottom Line: Rove ran the largest criminal election fraud organization in American history … directly from the White House!
Rove should be classified as a domestic terrorist.
His phone communications should be monitored, his home[s] should be searched, his computers, terminals, workstations, and files seized, and his FUCKING security clearance YANKED.
Perhaps he’s done enough damage to this country that neither the constitution will be protected, nor the Patriot act used to protect us from him.
Perhaps, once the cleansing of these fuckers from our government, then the constitution can be restored and the patriot act revoked. (As they’ll realize it had nothing to do with protecting this country or it constitution, perhaps the president though..But I won’t go there today.)
This shit is all being abused and enough is enough.
America Please Wake up.