{"id":2826,"date":"2006-05-13T15:15:41","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T19:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2007-09-08T17:33:14","modified_gmt":"2007-09-09T00:33:14","slug":"ess-meltdown-company-secretly-changes-contract-with-tennesee-counties-sends-used-machines-for-upcoming-primary-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=2826","title":{"rendered":"ES&S MELTDOWN: Company Secretly Changes Contract with Tennesee Counties, Sends USED Machines for Upcoming Primary Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>From today’s Tennessean…<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Used voting machines lack approval by state
\nVendor changed contract form language, memo alerts counties<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n

State officials say a vendor of voting machines that more than a dozen counties have lined up to buy surprised them by changing the contract form to allow for used equipment for the Aug. 3 elections.<\/p>\n

The state election office had never signed off on the change, according to an “alert” memo it sent out to affected counties.<\/p>\n

The April 12 memo said that Election Systems & Software Inc. had added — without permission — “used equipment” language to a Tennessee Voting Equipment order form. Davidson, Williamson and Wilson are among the counties waiting for their ES&S machines.
\n…
\nEddie Bryan, chairman of the Davidson County Election Commission, said he doesn’t know why ES&S bid on Metro’s business if it can’t deliver the goods.<\/p>\n

“These people have been playing games with us,” he said. “I’m not for having any used equipment.”<\/p><\/div>\n

As usual, btw, the reporter gets the story wrong with the same misinformation concerning the Help America Vote Act (HAVA):<\/p>\n

The law requires at least one handicapped-accessible machine at each precinct.<\/div>\n

As if we haven’t repeated this hundreds of times here: HAVA requires one disabled-accessible voting device<\/i> (not machine!) in each polling place<\/i> (not precinct, though that error is one we had made previously ourselves). Larger point being that there are other devices<\/i> for voting that can be used which are not “machines” — despite how much the vendors appreciate the mainstream media doing their misinformation for them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From today’s Tennessean… Used voting machines lack approval by state Vendor changed contract form language, memo alerts counties State officials say a vendor of voting machines that more than a dozen counties have lined up to buy surprised them by changing the contract form to allow for used equipment for the Aug. 3 elections. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,5,71],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2006","category-ess","category-tennessee","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}