You Oxpatch residents, heads up. According to what I hear, some of y’all fought mighty hard to get non-hackable printers onto your voting machines. According to what I also hear, at 7 PM this Thursday, February 21, the Lafayette County Board of Supervisors meets to discuss getting rid of them before your primary on March 11.
The county Republican Party, Election Commission, and Circuit Clerk’s office — all apparently favoring removal — will turn out in force. So I’d say that, if honest tallying of your vote matters to you and your friends, y’all better show up prepared to be respectfully loud-and-persuasive. (For more info, write DrAW[AT]Hughes[DOT]net.)
Nuff said.
I’ll be there. My beats cover courts, crime and county. The 3 Cs as I call it. From what they are saying the printers aren’t needed? Supposidly there are other “checks and balance” systems in place. They do delay things and have caused trouble during the last local elections. But we’ll see what they say.
Morning, kiddo. I almost said in the post, “Yo, Alys, you gonna be there?”
With bells on …
It has been my experience that neither party, the local election commissioners, the circuit clerk or the Diebold representative really wants the citizens to know what goes on in an election. It has been the common practice that mistakes are swept under the rug so to speak because their effect was not big enough to influence the election.
The touch screen machines are hackable. It will take the printer and ALL the security measures to insure an honest election. Unless the voters are trained to check their ballots before the final cast and unless the “paper trail” is secure AND usable, honest elections are at risk
Oh well, littl, if Diebold is in on it, it’s sure to be screwed. (See bradblog.com.)
i remember when the SoS was trotting these things out for the circuit clerks, trying to get them to buy into the sam’s club bulk sale discount deal, his people were promoting these things as “unhackable”, the word was used. diebold makes the bank atms and that was good enough for him, he said. didn’t say if they were made to the security specs of the atms. he finally added the voter verified paper trail as a concession to make people feel comfortable. could never get him to acknowledge any possible problems or that anyone would risk the jail time to attempt hacking a voting machine. i think eric clark is on the whole a good person, but stubborn to a fault.
and btw, lotus, since you been covering the FOI stuff, back then david hampton was defending the decision to award the contract to diebold, calling it a “good contract”. the thing was, he couldn’t have known that since the contract was sealed. activists had to fight to get that opened too.
Morning, ducky. I’m pretty convinced that the only reason GWB “won” re-election in ’04 was Diebold/Kenneth Blackwell chicanery in Ohio (and elsewhere, but dispositively there). All of ‘em need prison to suit me.
Now, to suit you with Jedge Dawg as folo’s permanent mascot, you might try sugaring-up riddenword next time you see ‘im. I have no idea whether it’ll work, but I will say The Hon. Dawg is mighty cute.
This SOS it appeared had an empeciable record before DIEBOLD which put a bad taste in my mouth that will always remain..Mississippian’s were never given sunshine on this deal, it was trust ME I know whats best for you.YAW