Company Connected to GOP and Romney Delivers Diebold Machines to Maryland Polls

Source: wired.com

A company, whose head is the former chairman of the Maryland Republican Party and is on Mitt Romney's presidential campaign steering committee, has won a contract from Diebold to deliver its voting machines on Election Day to precincts in 14 Maryland voting districts. I filed this story on the deal for Wired's front door.

The trucking firm, Office Movers, is owned by the family-run Kane Company, whose CEO and president is John M. Kane, chairman of the Republican Party in Maryland from 2002 until December 2006 and pictured at right with President Bush. Last November, Kane joined the steering committee for Republican presidential nominee candidate Mitt Romney, who won Tuesday's primary in Michigan.

Diebold Election Systems (now called Premier Election Solutions) has a statewide contract in Maryland. Its paperless touch-screen machines are the only machines used at Maryland polling locations (absentee and provisional ballots are cast on the company's optical-scan system). According to Diebold's state contract, the voting machine vendor is in charge of delivering its machines from warehouses to polling places on Election Day and with picking up the machines after the election.

Diebold has subcontracted part of that task to Office Movers to deliver machines for the February 12th primary and November general election in 14 of the state's 24 voting districts, including the state's largest county, Montgomery County.

The news surprised a voting activism group in Maryland and raises some concerns about possible conflict of interest and election integrity.


Read more: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/01/company-connect.html

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oops. this was yesterday. should have looked at my calendar!

on edit: link correction

"There's no need to recount everything"
"A few errors here and there does not a recount make"
"It's all just sour grapes"
"These claims of fraud/miscounted votes are ridiculous"
"Could someone please move this to the voting dungeon?"
"These people sound hysterical"
"Why would Republicans interfere in a Democratic primary anyway?"

:evilgrin:

wouldn't they insist on independent voting methods? :shrug:

adjusted link above.

Insanity that we allow this crap to continue... Why has their been no serious congressionl investigation into this... Our Congress lets me down more and more each day.

Drop that word...

There is no election integrity when Diebold and its nefarious machines are involved...

Goddamn it

K&R

Its paperless touch-screen machines are the only machines used at Maryland polling locations (absentee and provisional ballots are cast on the company's optical-scan system).

This is a recipe for disaster.

The State House of Reps voted unanimously to shitcan these machines, the State Senate killed the bill with Democratic majorities in both houses at the time.

;shrug:

-Hoot

The boys control that State. John Wilkes Booth was a hometown hero.

would steal an election. What can we do about this????

:kick:

Mitt Romney is running for President of the United States.
He was Governor of Massachusettes.
He's a Mormon and proud of it. Now that he is running for President he made a big deal about it in Texas.
When he was in Massachusettes, however, it seemed not to be a polite topic of conversation.
Mitt is not his first name. That's the name he uses as a first name. If you detect a small amount of dishonesty in that you would not be alone.
His first name is Willard - Willard Mitt Romney.
Do you recall the movie 'Willard' with Ernest Borgnine?
It was about a social misfit named 'Willard' who had an attraction for rats.
He talked to the rats and fed them.
It's a horror story.
Sort of what I imagine having Willard 'Mitt' Romney in the White House.
His father had been Governor of Michigan.
His father was born in Colonia Dublán, Galeana, in the Mexican state of Chihuahua.
That didn't stop his father from trying to run for President in 1968. Obviously - he didn't win.
His mother, an ex-actress, was born in Utah and tried to become one of the United States Senators from Michigan. She lost.
Willard 'Mitt' Romney's great grandfather ran from the United States to live in Mexico because he was a polygamous Mormon and wanted to avoid the laws of the United States of America.
Well - the Romney's are back in a big way.
Willard 'Mitt' Romney is no stranger to spreading the word - he is related directly to Parley P. Pratt who was one of the original member of the 'Quorum of Twelve Apostles'.
When Willard 'Mitt' Romney says, "I believe in my Mormon faith and I endeavor to live by it. My faith is the faith of my fathers -- I will be true to them and to my beliefs." don't you think you better listen?