Blogged by Brad from the road…
The report is music to our ears, and far too long in coming. From today’s Tampa Tribune…
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The devices will be replaced by machines that scan and record paper ballots as part of a legislatively mandated change requiring a paper trail after elections.
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The machines being hauled away by Creative Recycling of Tampa were 6 years old. The company has a state contract to dispose of 27,785 of the touch-screen machines in counties using them.
Hillsborough County’s Supervisor of Elections, Buddy Johnson, offers the best use of the machines — he says in the article that “he wanted to donate one to the county’s history museum” — but beware, while some are to be scrapped, some of these bad machines may show up at an election near you…
Then, Creative Recycling workers will extract parts that can be resold, such as a thermal printer in each machine.
Any pieces that can’t be sold will wind up shoved into a two-story-tall machine that will mash them into bits that will be separated and recycled.
We shall drift off to bed tonight, imagining the sweet, sweet sound of touch-screen voting machines being “mashed into bits.” We never thought we’d say it, but: Thank you, Florida.
I saw the most hilarious/scary/ realistic video about diebold releasing the results of the election early on http://www.larryflynt.com. I just I should share with you because no blog has no more to protect our votes counting.
Fuck Florida, thank you Brad and all the EI people.
Did we go over why they are having the delegate problem here yet?
On the flip side of the paper ballot legislation, some Puke put an amendment to move the primary up to January forcing the Dems to vote yes on the bill.
Another set up 🙁
….Repurposed …
Talkin about spoonfull … spoonfull … spoon full …
Brad,
If you are coming thru this part of Texas, it is about time we got together and barbequed a … otherwise I am going to waterborg JoJ …
And taxpayers paid how much for these wads of scrap? What a scam, on so many levels.
So these 3,000 or so machines are not part of the HAVA expenditures. Right? They were purchased before HAVA?
I hope everyone’s having fun out here. This is my life today.
Every one has a message … so do I … and this is for all those who have a message that is bradbloggie and not NOT NOT presnit blushie … Brad … could you bring Joan to the barbie? 🙂 … ?
American flag waved!, Amurkan flag waived!
Dredd , what’s up ?
TRA LA LAAAAAAAAAH!
99 aka miss spamolina,
I kinda like it on this end not having to enter “the code”
I’m bald from tearing my hair out. 🙁
Well, I’ll be go to heck… the dreaded code gizzy is gone! What a relief for our dear commenters!
Nobody warned me… and that means it’s probably a temporary glitch….
You might be amused to note that these freaks don’t seem to mind that their crap is blocked. They just keep blithely at it… burying me, and the server, in heaps of their smelly dung.
Or maybe we’re going to get a new and improved gizzy that is even more machine unfriendly, while less aggravating for us…?
Don’t mind me. I’m punchy.
lol, it was gone yesterday early AM after an outage 😛
Well I was getting nuked back here for a day and a half before the outage… so I hope we perfect the electrified keyboard zapper defense software soon! If I can nail the bastards with some serious voltage, we’re jake….
Did anyone read this?
WTF? Bill Clinton on Rush Limbaugh Show Day of TX Primary
This ones better ‘for the believers’, most of us figgered it out a long time ago.
Top Ranking CIA Operatives Admit Al-qaeda Is a Complete Fabrication
LINDA (#6)–
These iVotronic DRE machines were the ones purchased by KATHERINE HARRIS (at least for Sarasota County) in 2002/ tested by CIBER, INC. Their history of failures, mechanical break-downs, repairs (especially to the mylar touch screens) have been carefully documented by citizen observers over the years…reads like a damn phone book.
While I’m overjoyed to see them FINALLY headin’ to the junk-yard (no small victory; it IS the DREAM that has propelled us forward)–there is some concern among us that in doing so, BROWNING has now disposed of the final evidence of the stolen CD-13 election.
…perhaps the error rate/ failures/ bugs, whatever happened inside those bastard machines would be IMPOSSIBLE to find, now–still, I know several very clever and talented computer programmers who are DYING to get their hands on one of these (now crunched) voting machines,
convinced they have several ways to reproduce or find the problem.
I can feel their angst; all they ever wanted to do was see a truly independent, thorough testing of these machines…and despite ALL of the tests done here:
1. FSU TEST–they didn’t test the PEB’s/ testing was not even given the APPEARANCE of non-partisan, independence.
2. STATE PARALLEL TEST/ AUDIT–run by insiders Kathy Dent and David Drury/ only 10 machines tested, 5 of which were used on election day, unsound testing procedures/ STRANGE TEST SCRIPTS THAT HAD ALL VOTES CAST BY TESTERS ENTERING THE VOTE SEQUENCING THROUGH JENNINGS!! (Yes, they did…!)/ PRESS and OBSERVERS HASSLED
3. GAO TEST–Again, machines chosen by DENT AND DRURY/ loaded up PERSONALLY by DRURY/ tested at DENT and DRURY’s warehouse/ no investigation of STATE TESTING PROCEDURE examined. Incomplete, but analysis “exonerates” iVotronics right before they are destroyed.
…as a result, Vern Buchanan was officially certified just last week.
I was, and still am, a NEW YORKER. As I read Brad’s report, kept thinking about how damn fast that 2 million tons of steel disappeared.
We were so proud of our boys, our efforts…
only to see the EVIDENCE of the largest crime scene be shipped off to make “collector’s edition WTC coins” and new war ships.
That being said, DRE’s are OVER. Thanks to everyone, here. MUCH reason to celebrate.
Now we can fight the complete absence of PRECINT BY PRECINCT RESULTS…and even MORE ominous–VOTE BY MAIL as the solution to the PRIMARY MESS.
(And FLORIDIOT–yes…I’m blaming FL STATE DEM CHAIR KAREN THURMAN, personally. Would LOVE to see her name come up more often as the pundits are going limp-fingered with all their nasty, uninformed pointing of their poking finger.)
Hey Floridiot, I’ve long been anticipating the day West Virginians wake up and get rid of jello jay!
One other thing, perhaps a few of these crap boxen should be donated to schools.
Hey 99, what’s up? Yesterday every other site was working but for 3 hours, but this one gave me an error page, and then today two posts of mine never showed up? Hmmm. That old spam piece still is hilarious though, thanks. Is it the new button?
Hey Floridiot, with all the chower heads talking election over load, looks what’s flying under the radar:
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/
Media chowder heads that is, definately not election integrity people to be sure.
Q: They aren’t destroying machines which could provide real evidence of an election fraud conspiracy, are they?
We wouldn’t want the criminals to get away!
Looks like the dreaded code is back. Maybe now I can get something to eat…. 😛
Hey, I just checked my #23 link, and all though the article that comes up is definately food for thought, I was posting about the Uribe articles.
# 4
2) Do NOT make personal attacks on other commenters.
Commenting and moderating is conflict of interest.
99 – you failed.
” … might be a spoonful of diamonds … might be a spoonful of gold … but … some of them are lyin about it … some are cryin about it … some are dyin about it … that spoon … that spoon … that spoonful …”
Let’s not get too excited. Optical scanners are also vulnerable to fraud. The paper trail is crucial but so is a hand count. This battle is not over. Onward
Dredd ~ SPARE ME THE CRAPTON GET TO THE BEEF . . .
President Obama . . .
I am not perfect … I’m flawed but I’m trying to get better each and every day as long as I live but spare all the phonies. . .
Love Judge of Judges.
Dredd, It’s never about be’in about the side thats winning It’s bout the side that’s rite as far as I’m concerned.