We got those touchscreen machines all over the country after the 2000 election made a national spectacle of the problems with punch card voting machines, but Massachusetts had its statewide spectacle of the same thing four years earlier, … [Read more...]
One more strike against Diebold
These people read our ballots? Bank of America has installed snazzy new ATMs, made by Diebold, which supposedly scan checks for deposit. There are no more envelopes. I tried to deposit a check issued by another bank, that is, actually sent … [Read more...]
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty
Yes, these machines will have a paper trail. The same paper trail that was found woefully inadequate in Ohio's primary election in May. In a damning report prepared by the Election Science Institute for Ohio's Cuyahoga County, nearly 10% of … [Read more...]
Galvin ‘fesses up: Diebold TSx to be used in 12 communities
In a press release dated October 27, 2006 (nothing like sending out important releases on a Friday), Sec. Galvin finally admits that Massachusetts will indeed have Diebold's AccuVote TSx touch-screen machines at select polling locations on … [Read more...]
Diebold Machines – Courtesy of Secretary of State Bill Galvin (D)
(disclosure: posted by Jill Stein's campaign staff)STEIN CRITICIZES SECRETARY'S DECISION TO USE FLAWED DIEBOLD VOTING MACHINES IMPLICATED IN SECURITY LAPSESReacting to the recent report that the Massachusetts Secretary of State is … [Read more...]
Galvin Considering Diebold
According to Massachusetts election integrity groups, Galvin's office sent out requests for proposals to voting machine companies only last fall, and narrowed the choices down to three for serious consideration. For most of this year, … [Read more...]
Got any DEC Vax Cabinet Keys? (Diebold)
It get's better. A writer at Dkos discovered that the key that locks the memory port access is the same lock used on DEC Vax computers of Maynard fame.Having been a Vax systems manager, I probably had two or three of those keys at one point … [Read more...]