Another election official goes to work for Diebold after leaving office. A former Diebold lobbyist becomes the election official. This revolving door is common.
Also, an unusually good article in TN press on vote-switching - a commonly reported occurance with DRE voting machines which can be easily programmed to switch votes in a way that most voters will not notice. When a voter does notice and cancel the ballot to vote again, the second time the voter tries to vote, the machine does the right thing. The voter thinks it could have been his/her own fault. Everyone is fooled, thinks it is innocent error, and manual audits are subverted by electronic malfeasance. For more information on how DREs can be programmed to fool manual audits of voter verifiable paper trails see: http://brennancenter.org/dynamic/subpages/download_file_39288.pdf
It is a "no brainer" not to use expensive DRE voting systems, so what motivates US election officials to actively promote them over the objection of virtually all independent computer scientists and the National Institute of Standards and Technology?
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Voting machine maker to hire former Georgia elections director http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/16307292.htm Macon Telegraph - Macon,GA,USA ... of the state's elections division has accepted a job with Diebold Election Systems, the company that supplied Georgia's $75 million electronic voting machine ... See all stories on this topic
Suspicions aroused by voting machine problems http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/national/article/0,1406,KNS_350_5231946,00.html Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA ... The Pinellas County Supervisor of Elections Office confirmed to ... Or, perhaps, he was voting with one hand ... A spokesman for Diebold Election Systems told Computer ...
"'Daily Voting News' For December 23, 2006" http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3946 Brad Blog - USA ... directly in charge of the state's voting systems amongst ... also held a position on the Election Assistance Commission ... Timms has no elections experience and has a ... See all stories on this topic
Daily Voting News 12-22-06 http://electionfraudblog.com/index.php/daily-voting-news-12-22-06/ By Administrator NAtional: Cook County's voting machine supplier for sale ... GA: Another $75 Million to Diebold? ... PA: Westmoreland County - County elections bureau eyes hiring guru ... TX: Waller County - State probing Waller County election ... Election Fraud Blog - http://electionfraudblog.com
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