The Republican Party's favorite "unbiased" tester was de-certified, the Denver Post reports, one month after Phillips accepted an invitation from a Florida law firm that represented a Republican candidate to "...witness a recount in a Florida election" on behalf of the candidate.
Donetta Davidson, former Colorado Secretary of State, told the Post: "When there's a conflict over an election like there was in Florida we don't want (these companies) to be hired by one party or another."
But in the Dispatch's world, testers that work for Republican candidates and are financed by the voting machines companies are pure, while insulated academics are not to be trusted.
Every test and study of the voting machines – from the General Accountability Office to the Carter Baker Commission, from Princeton to Stanford to Johns Hopkins, from liberal California to conservative Florida – have come to the same conclusion. Electronic voting machines are eminently hackable. That's why the Columbus Dispatch doesn't want them tested.
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Bob Fitrakis is the editor of the Free Press and freepress.org. He co-authored "What Happened in Ohio: A documentary record of theft and fraud in the 2004 election," New Press, with Harvey Wasserman and Steve Rosenfeld. Ed note: Tuesday, 9/18, the phrase "300,000 undervotes" was changed to "30,000 undervotes" - just a typo - sorry.
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