Wednesday, 26 May 2004
Well, duh. Walden O'Dell, CEO of a company that makes insecure touchscreen voting machines that lack verifiable paper trails, says that it was a "huge mistake" for him to publicly endorse George W. Bush. O'Dell sent out an invitation to a Bush fundraising party last August, writing "I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
O'Dell, whose Texas-based Diebold Election Systems Inc. is facing possible criminal charges for violating California election laws, said he had didn't write the letter himself… and pledged that Diebold would not support political parties while it was "in the voting business." (!)
Find out if these machines are in your district, and then have them removed. Seriously.
(This is probably a good time to mention TellAnAmericanToVote.com, a web site for expat Americans who need an absentee ballot — and, as the name implies, a link that you can pass on to your expat American friends. At least when voting from overseas you don't have to worry about rigged machines.)- Posted by Scott Forbes at 5:12 am. comments.
