Replies to post #46237 on Simply Politics & News (GOV)

[sarals]

do a little research... it's not just about 2000... here are some of my many previous posts on the subject...

By now, Diebold Inc., the owner of what is now arguably the largest voting-machine company in the U.S., has become famous for its vested interests and an idiotic written statement made by its CEO.

Diebold director W.H. Timken has raised over $100,000 for the 2004 campaign of George W. Bush, earning the designation “Pioneer.” …

On June 30, 2003, Diebold CEO Walton O’Dell organized a fundraising party for Vice President Dick Cheney, raising $600,000 and many of our antennas.

Julie Carr-Smyth, of The Plain Dealer, discovered in August 2003 that O’Dell had t raveled to Crawford, Texas, for a Pioneers and Rangers meeting attended by George W. Bush. Then Smyth learned of a letter, written by O’Dell shortly after returning from the Bush ranch and sent to 100 of his wealthy and politically inclined friends, which said:

“I am committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year.”

Black Box Voting
by Bev Harris

[sarals]

The Washington Post called Hagel's 1996 win "the major Republican upset in the November election." Hagel swept all three congressional districts, becoming the first Republican to win a U.S. Senate seat in Nebraska in 24 years. "He won counties up and down the politically diverse Platte River Valley and topped it off with victories in Omaha and Lincoln," reported the Hastings Tribune.

What the media didn't report is that Hagel's job, until two weeks before he announced his run for Senate, was running the voting machine company whose machines would count his votes...

Six years later, when asked about his ownership of ES&S by Lincoln's Channel 8 TV News, Hagel said he had sold that stock. If so, the stock he says he sold was never listed as one that he'd owned.

This is not a gray area. This is lying. Hagel's failure to disclose his financial relationship with the company was not brought to the attention of the public, and this was a material omission.

Black Box Voting
by Bev Harris

[sarals]

Diebold’s principal engineer, Ken Clark, wrote a memo on January 14, 2002, describing his intent to avoid putting his newly modified software through California’s certification process by fudging a version number. He wrote, “What good are rules if you can’t bend them now and again?”

Black Box Voting
by Bev Harris

[sarals]

Tom Eschberger became vice president of ES&S not long after he accepted an immunity deal for cooperating with prosecutors in a case against Arkansas Secretary of State Bill McCuen, who pleaded guilty to taking kickbacks and bribes in a scheme related to computerized voting systems.

Black Box Voting
Bev Harris

[sarals]

and this...

http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=2542577&txt2find=bev+harris+

can you intelligently discuss this subject?