The Women of Diebold

[Amaryllis]

Real endorsements from real election officials, who all just happen to be women, (??) from a real Diebold promotional brochure, featuring two of our all-time favorites: Dems Conny McCormack and Cathy Cox.

Scroll down on the link to see their shiny smiling faces and quotes about how wonderful Diebold is. Anyone see a conflict of interest here?

On the bottom panel, there is a section of the brochure where the wording is partially cut off and the part of it that you can see is difficult to read, but it says, "We won't rest until everyone's vote is counted successfully and accurately." Are we all comforted?

http://www.blogfororegon.com/diebold

Then go here to see the latest on the Diebold variations for a far more realistic portrayal of Diebold:
http://homepage.mac.com/rcareaga/diebold/adworks.htm

[LaPera]

1. What lying SHIT!!! How much does Diebold give to their lying corrupt

campaigns?

Obviously they don't care one bit about all of the millions upon millions of questionable manipulation of votes, machine breakdowns, secrecy of the software paid for by our tax dollars...and the fact no private corporation should own the peoples voting apparatus's...because the conflict of interest is too overwhelming!!!!

But these arrogant, selfish ignorant, non-caring, bitches, obviously don't give a fuck one bit about our vote...as long as the bucks keep flowing in their direction.

[Amaryllis]

2. It's called conflict of interest...

[LaPera]

3. That's what I said...

:smoke:

[Amaryllis]

4. Yes, you did, referring to corporation owning the people's voting

apparatus, which is so true. I was thinking it's one huge conflict of interest also for election officials to be endorsing a vendor. I dont expect they did it just out of the goodness of their heart. One has to ask what's in it for them? It will be very interesting to see what happens in the GA governor's race with CAthy Cox running.

[LaPera]

5. Your right!

[Peace Patriot]

6. See Amarylls' other great post today, about Cathy Cox/Diebold "money pit"

in Georgia. It would be mind-boggling in different times than these.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x427359

More discussion of these matters there. One of the chief engineers of the Calif Diebold scandal, that I mention in the other thread--the "swiftboating" of our honest Sec of State Kevin Shelley--was Connie McCormack, head of elections in Los Angeles. It does not in the least surprise me to see her pushing Diebold like a sales representative, as if she is on the payroll. She is best friends with--wines, dines and vacations with--the former chief salesperson for Diebold in Calif, Deborah Seiler (who now works as a San Joaquin county election official). McCormack is a Diebold shill--equally as bad as the Schwarzenegger appointee Sec of State Bruce McPherson.

Ba-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-d girls! (--and not in any "good" sense of the word; Bush junta bad!)

[Peace Patriot]

7. For those who need the info...

SOME RESOURCES FOR AMERICAN REVOLUTION II:

Hopeful signs - latest news:

California voters sue the state over Diebold:
www.VoterAction.org is suing the state of California and 18 Calif county registrars on behalf of 25 California voter/plaintiffs, on the illegal Diebold "certification" by Schwarzenegger appointee Bruce McPherson.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2180496
Seven of these counties just promised the judge they would use PAPER BALLOTS, and were dismissed from this lawsuit (4/27/06).
http://kcbs.com/pages/29285.php
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2249205

Maryland rejects Diebold:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x418263

Florida - anti-trust accusations against Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia, re: heroic Florida election official Ion Sancho:
(FLA AG subpoenas the companies)
http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,110192,00.html
http://www.tbo.com/news/politics/MGBKSY8W8LE.html
(info & discussion)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2183630

Utah county clerk fights back!
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x419226

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More resources for American Revolution II:

www.votersunite.org (MythBreakers - easy primer on electronic voting--one of the myths is that HAVA requires electronic voting; it does not.)
www.UScountvotes.org (statistical monitoring of '06 and '08 elections--they need donations)


(Activist sites with links to state activist groups or info)
www.votetrustusa.org (news of this great movement from around the country)
www.votersunited.org (good general info, and state links)
www.verifiedvoting.org (great activist site)
www.solarbus.org/election/index.shtml (fab compendium of all election info)

www.freepress.org (devoted to election reform)
www.bradblog.com (also great, and devoted to election reform)
www.TruthIsAll.net (analysis of the 2004 election)* :patriot: :applause: :patriot:
www.votepa.us (well-organized local group of citizen activists in Pennsylvania, where important legal issues are at stake, including state's rights over election systems)
Provisions of the PA lawsuit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x423739

The Voter Confidence Resolution
http://tinyurl.com/rlnr2 (“We Do Not Consent”)
http://guvwurld.blogspot.com (GuvWurld blog main page)
http://tinyurl.com/amryg (Voter Confidence Resolution

www.debrabowen.com (Calif Senator running for Sec of State to reform election system)
www.johnbonifaz.com (running for Massachusetts Sec of State on strong election reform and antiwar platform)

*Some tributes to TruthIsAll, who is very ill:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417007
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x417231
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x675477

Congressional bills:

Russ Holt's HR 550 requires a real paper ballot, bans secret software in "voting machines", and has more than 170 co-sponsors, but the audit required is too weak, it promotes electronic voting and centralized power, and the secret software might be permitted to continue in the central tabulators (the bill is not clear). To sign the HR 550 petition: http://www.rushholt.com/petition.html
At lot of discussion at DU of the loopholes/pitfalls in HR 550:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x422926
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x421136
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=422967&mesg_id=422967
(Note: Senate Bill-SB 330 and House-HR704 simply require a "voter verified paper audit trail" (VVPAT), which may be best for the moment.)


Also of interest:

Michael Collins (Autorank)'s searing election reform article for New Zealand's Scoop.com
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x971363

Bob Koehler (-- four recent election reform initiatives in Ohio, predicted to win by 60/40 votes, flipped over, on election day, into 60/40 LOSSES!--the biggest flipover we've seen yet; the election theft machines and their masters are now dictating election policy! Title: "Poll Shock" 11/24/05)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col321.htm

Bob Koehler's latest: "Trust us: Take this box and stuff it" (3/16/06)
http://commonwonders.com/archives/col337.htm
More Koehler:
www.tmsfeatures.com/tmsfeatures/subcategory.jsp?file=20051124ctnbk-a.txt&catid=1824&code=ctnbk

Amaryllis (Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia lavish lobbying of election officials - Beverly Hilton, Aug. '05)
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340

HOWARD DEAN remarks on electronic voting machines 04/06
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x994507

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Throw Diebold, ES&S and ALL election theft machines into 'Boston Harbor' NOW!

:think: :patriot: :woohoo: :patriot: :think:

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"That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it." --Thomas Jefferson, The Declaration of Independence

[Kelvin Mace]

8. I had fun with these pix back in the Fall

especially contrasting Cathy Cox comments with ones taken from GA state docs.

http://blackboxvoting.com/s9/index.php?/archives/31-Dueling-quotes.html

[flyingobject]

9. Diebold Lovers

[nicknameless]

10. Please stop identifying McCormack and Cox as Democrats.

There is no DNA test available to determine the true political leanings of operatives.
But when they're fighting to insure "wins" for rethugs, isn't it kind of OBVIOUS what their true political persuasion is?

Life-long rethugs who register as Dems, so that they can work from the inside to defeat the party, are STILL rethugs.

The head of the Dem party in Ohio is one, Teresa LaPore is another.
This Dem identification is supposed to (and apparently successfully) make people think that both sides are equally at fault.

GRRR!!!

[Amaryllis]

13. Just because they are Dems does not mean they are automatically

good guys. REad Andrew Gumbel's book Steal this Vote for a history of Dems involved in election fraud. Dems are subject to bribes and kickback just like republicans are. ARe you suggesting that all Dems are good guys and only repubs are bad guys, and that if there is a Dem bad guy they are only masquerading as Dems and are republicans in disguise? Too black and white for my experience of how the world works. There are good, ethical republicans and corrupt Dems.

[nicknameless]

14. I’m saying: Look at whose “wins” are assisted

by the efforts of these so-called Dems.

Did McCormack break the law last November, by keeping election observers away, on behalf of the Democratic candidate?
Of course not.

Look at which candidates their efforts do benefit. These are Dems in name only.

Please don’t try to put words in my mouth. I never suggested “that all Dems are good guys and only repubs are bad guys.”

What I wrote is what I meant.

[AuntiBush]

11. Just Wow.

This should sicken any woman, and at that rate man, American and speaking of outrage, where are the so-called Christan fundies voices?

[cascadiance]

12. Hmm... When I saw the subject line, thought it was a Playboy Spread...

Though that would have probably have been more informative and straight forward than this POS piece.