Saturday, December 17, 2005

Voting machines hacked, Leon official says

Voting machines hacked, Leon official says
By Dara Kam

Special to The Palm Beach Post

Saturday, December 17, 2005

TALLAHASSEE — Leon County Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho asked state elections officials Friday to reexamine their voting machine certification program after computer experts conducting tests in Sancho's office hacked into Diebold machines and altered the vote count.

Gov. Jeb Bush, despite calling Sancho as a "maverick" who uses "unorthodox" methods, said earlier in the day that incoming Secretary of State Sue Cobb should "carefully" consider Sancho's complaint.

Sunday, December 11, 2005

Yipe! Can this be true?

Edward Robles
BBV Action Crew
Username: Tedeger

Post Number: 16
Registered: 11-2005

Best of Black Box?
Votes: 3 (A keeper?)
Posted on Wednesday, December 07, 2005 - 11:45 am:

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A law that will make democracy all but moot in Ohio is about to pass the state legislature and to be signed by its Republican governor.[with the lowest governor approval on record (5%-8%)]Despite massive corruption scandals besieging the Ohio GOP, any hope that the Democratic party could win this most crucial swing state in future presidential elections, or carry its pivotal US Senate seat in 2006, are about to end.House Bill 3's most publicized provision will require positive identification before casting a vote. But it also opens voter registration activists to partisan prosecution, exempts electronic voting machines from public scrutiny, quintuples the cost of citizen-requested statewide recounts and makes it illegal to challenge a presidential vote count or, indeed, any federal election result in Ohio.When added to the recently passed HB1, which allows campaign financing to be dominated by the wealthy and by corporations, and along with a Rovian wish list of GOP attacks on the ballot box, democracy in Ohio could be all but over.We should rename the Buckeye State the Diebold State and have done with it.


Johnnie Anderson
BBV Participant
Username: Skeptic

Post Number: 10
Registered: 12-2004

Best of Black Box? N/A
Votes: 0 (A keeper?)
Posted on Sunday, December 11, 2005 - 04:06 am:

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I've tried to point out before that we cannot expect people put in office by fraudulent means to vote to restore honest voting. As we see here, they will work to make sure voting stays dishonest. These fixed elections have put billions or trillions of dollars in the pockets of the wealthy. They will never willingly allow that to change. So live as a slave or prepare for revolution. Because democracy is over in our beloved country. We will have to fight, literally, to restore it because peaceful demonstrations do nothing. Those in power are not influenced by them.

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