{"id":5254,"date":"2007-11-06T16:22:01","date_gmt":"2007-11-06T23:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5254"},"modified":"2007-11-08T04:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T12:08:00","slug":"video-with-election-day-here-concerns-of-diebold-failures-rankle-cuyahoga-county-oh-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5254","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: With Election Day Here, Concerns of Diebold Failures Rankle Cuyahoga County, OH (Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"240\" height=\"198\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2bX3B9_nCew\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/2bX3B9_nCew\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"240\" height=\"198\" vspace=\"3\" hspace=\"6\" align=\"right\"><\/embed><\/object>A good report from a couple of days ago <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfoxcleveland.com\/myfox\/pages\/Home\/Detail?contentId=4818871&#038;version=1&#038;locale=EN-US&#038;layoutCode=VSTY&#038;pageId=1.1.1\">from the I-Team<\/a> in Cleveland, Ohio. Unfortunately, they tend to run such reports just before Election Days, when it&#8217;s too damned late to do a damn thing about it.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, some very good stuff here. Of particular note are the points from Diebold&#8217;s recommendations which &#8220;appear to border on the absurd,&#8221; that should voting machine memory cards be lost, &#8220;elections must be re-scheduled.&#8221; Or if they fail, as our recent story concerning <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5242\">Diebold&#8217;s admissions about memory card failures<\/a> in Florida pointed towards, the company says &#8220;all voters will have to be called in to re-vote.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Heckuva voting system guys. Check out the report, above right.<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: Discussion of suing Diebold comes up in this piece yet again. Along with the same concerns, as heard elsewhere, about &#8220;the Catch-22&#8221; of suing voting machine vendors. Namely, counties are afraid to sue the company they <i>rely<\/i> on to run their next election! The counties and the vendors are &#8220;joined at the hip,&#8221; as the I-Team report points out. Call it a soft form of extortion, really.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t already, please sign <a href=\"http:\/\/salsa.democracyinaction.org\/o\/2671\/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12354\">VoterAction&#8217;s petition<\/a> calling on Congress to &#8220;conduct a full investigation into the dangers associated with the privatization of our public elections and to determine whether certain US voting systems companies have committed crimes under federal and state anti-fraud laws.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For an early look at concerns, largely of voter-suppression issues, around the country, Alternet has a very good <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alternet.org\/rights\/67036\/?page=entire\">state-by-state preview<\/a> this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good report from a couple of days ago from the I-Team in Cleveland, Ohio. Unfortunately, they tend to run such reports just before Election Days, when it&#8217;s too damned late to do a damn thing about it. Nonetheless, some very good stuff here. Of particular note are the points from Diebold&#8217;s recommendations which &#8220;appear [&hellip;]<\/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":[21,306,17,3,235,106,6,15,172],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-cuyahoga-co","category-debra-bowen","category-dieboldpremier","category-election-2007","category-election-fraud","category-election-irregularities","category-ohio","category-photo-id-laws","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254","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=5254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5254"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}