MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow offered a nice hat-tip to us Tuesday night for our Secret Koch Tapes exclusive at Mother Jones on NJ Gov. Chris Christie (the complete segment, much longer than the clip below, is here)…
And RT’s Thom Hartmann did similar for our Tuesday Salon exclusive on Argonne National Lab’s Remote Control Diebold Hack (he covered it several times, with nice hat-tips by name, on both his radio and TV shows this week. The following was his latest and most extensive analysis, from last night)…
By the way, there’s been quite a bit of new news coverage on that new e-voting hack over the past 24 hours, since I last discussed it. You can check out some of it here. And still, there has been absolutely no response to the news from Dominion Voting, the current owners of what had been Diebold Election Systems, Inc., or from ES&S, which also services many of Diebold’s old contracts. The voting machine companies used to get right out in front of these things, to lie about them as soon as possible. Not this time, for some reason. Perhaps more on that later.
Also, our friend Jeanne “AKMuckraker” Devon of the great Alaska blog “Mudflats” offers an amusing take on the Diebold hack, after she noticed one-time “Tea Party” Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate Joe Miller (whose very appropriate concerns about Diebold voting systems in his state we vigorously covered during his election contest last November) is currently quoting and linking favorably to our Salon article from the front page of his website today.
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UPDATE 9/30/11: Well, waddaya know? Even Fox “News” suddenly gives a damn! “Researchers Hack Voting Machine for $26”.
We’re stuck with Diebold TSx here in DuPage County 100% for early voting (unless something opts for absentee or drives to Commission headquarters).
The early voting locations have included in the past: empty mall shop space, a golf clubhouse, libraries, community centers and village halls. Several years ago I happened to be at a village hall the day before early voting began and saw election “people” (in Illinois, election judges do not run early voting) setting up the TSx machines. Later that night I was in the building again and noticed that the door to the room containing all the TSx machines had been left ajar. The election “people” were long gone. No security guard. Someone who knew what they were doing could have been in and out of there quickly and undetected.
When will we ever learn that elections are a ruse to make us believe we have a choice?
Just sayin’ what George Carlin (r.i.p.) was just sayin’ about our owners …