In the wake of revelations of serious security flaws in Diebold electronic voting machines the New York Times reports that the Diebold spokesperson is really stupid.
"“David Bear, a spokesman for Diebold Election Systems, said the potential risk existed because the company's technicians had intentionally built the machines in such a way that election officials would be able to update their systems in years ahead.
"'’For there to be a problem here, you're basically assuming a premise where you have some evil and nefarious election officials who would sneak in and introduce a piece of software," he said. "I don't believe these evil elections people exist.'"
David Bear, meet Katherine Harris and J. Kenneth Blackwell, Ohio Secretary of State. The stealing of elections by "evil and nefarious election officials"” is routine, and a number of instances of tampering with Diebold machines during the 2004 election have been well documented. There was also, of course, the case of the president of Diebold, headquartered in Ohio, promising to deliver Ohio for Bush in 2004. Not to mention Blackwell's discriminatory distributiontion of voting machines to facilitate republican voting and impede democratic voting.
Every vote should be cast on a paper ballot which can manually recounted if necessary.
No comments:
Post a Comment