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Diebold ATMs
It gets a helluva lot worse than that. Diebold is the same company that makes these electronic voting machines that are suppose to be the solution to the confusing Florida "butterfly" paper ballot, hanging chads, fiasco of Election 2000. :eek:
If those assholes are using XP Embedded for their voting machines (and they probably are), without a paper ballot back-up, will we
ever be able to trust the outcome of any future elections?(!)
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COLUMBUS - The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush - prompted Democrats this week to question the propriety of allowing O'Dell's company to calculate votes in the 2004 presidential election...
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm" target="_blank">Published on Thursday, August 28, 2003 by the Cleveland Plain Dealer
Voting Machine Controversy
Is
THIS[/b] what that company meant when they promised His Bushness that they would deliver the state of Ohio to him????!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:
There goes what's left of American democracy and freedom: killed not by the bang of war and conquest, an epic struggle with competing ideologies and "Evil Empires", but by the whimper of some POS op-sys. :mad:
Congratulations Bill: you are now the enemy of the entire free world (or what's left of it)
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[ November 25, 2003: Message edited by: jtpenrod ]