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04/24/2004 Archived Entry: "Kucinich calls out E-voting"
Kucinich calls out E-voting
Dennis calls for discontinuing electronic voting altogether.
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, who has been sounding warning alarms regarding electronic voting systems since he began his campaign last year, today called on federal, state and local election officials “to suspend immediately the implementation of any voting systems that do not provide a 100 percent reliable paper-trail back-up to corroborate results.”A decision yesterday by the eight-member California Voting Systems and Procedures Panel that 15,000 electronic voting machines in four counties be banned in the November election because of “glitches” in the March primary election “is more than enough evidence that these systems could undermine the integrity and affect the results of November’s general election,” Kucinich said.
Especially in terms of the Presidential election, Kucinich said, “we cannot entrust the future of our country to technologies that are flawed, suspect, and proven to have failed, especially when those technologies have been developed by companies that have their own political agendas.”
Diebold Election Systems, which came under the harshest criticism from the California elections panel, is headed by Chief Executive Officer Walden O'Dell, who last year became active in the re-election effort of President Bush, even attending a strategy meeting with wealthy Bush benefactors at the President's private ranch in Texas. Soon after, O’Dell wrote a fundraising letter where he said he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
Replies: 4 people speak up
As I have said before, I'm planning to vote by absentee ballot. It leaves a paper trail.
Posted by Demeur @ 04/25/2004 04:34 AM NY
Gotta love that Kucinich for speaking up.
Demeur - I wonder how many other people are planning to vote by absentee ballot to try to ensure a paper trail. Sounds like a good plan.
Posted by LML @ 04/25/2004 07:13 AM NY
As I watch the double fake James Earl Jones, I mean the liar Prince Bandar on Meet the Press, I only wish more people were aware of these machines. Can the Bush FIX be defeated ?
That is the only question.
Posted by gammarock @ 04/25/2004 09:54 AM NY
you dont think that they just lose the absentee ballots? i dont think that they even counted them last election
Posted by justin @ 04/25/2004 04:02 PM NY
