WalterM140 wrote:
"TALLAHASSEE =B7 The head of Florida's elections division resigned =
Monday=20 amid reports he was feeling political heat over a push to purge=20
thousands of suspected felons from the state's voter rolls."
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/loc...ion08jun08,0,= 24
24064.story?coll=3Dsfla-news-florida
or
http://tinyurl.com/2m568

It's much worse than that.
Today's New York Times:
"If election officials want to convince voters that electronic voting = can
be trusted, they should be willing to make it at least as secure as slot =
machines.


There are more stories about the software, how easy it is to change
results, resistance to using a paper receipt, very odd vote counts
where computerized voting is used, etc..

http://www.cpa.org.au/garchve04/1171usavotes.html
Beware computers that count votes

O'Dell who is the chairman of the board of Diebold Election=20
Systems, the second largest company in the US that counts votes=20
is quoted as saying that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver=20
its electoral votes to [George W Bush] in 2004".

On occasion, O'Dell hangs out at the Bush ranch in Crawford,=20
Texas. He hosted a US$600,000 fundraiser for the Bush-Cheney=20
campaign in Ohio in which Cheney was the featured speaker.

Questions began to swirl about Diebold's vote-counting machines=20
soon after they began securing lucrative contracts under Bush's=20
"Help America Vote Act", which provides US$3.9 billion to the=20
states to help finance a total shift to electronic voting by=20
2006.

Three corporations own the hardware and software used to count=20
about 80 percent of the votes cast electronically in the US.

A striking fact about the boards of these companies is the=20
presence of former CIA directors, including James Woolsey, Bobby=20
Ray Inman, John Deutch, and Gates and Carlucci. When has the CIA=20
been pro-democracy? Why this keen interest in voting technology?

Would you mind posting the names of the other two corporations who, along with
Diebold, seem to control the lion's share of the electronic vote counting
equipment available in the US?

Incidentally, I went to the Diebold web site and found a search page there for
the use of the public in getting information about Diebold. I punched in both
"Names of Directors" and "List of Directors" and was informed both times that
there was no such information available. Isn't that interesting, much less
remarkable??

George Z.



Walt