Cuyahoga Co, Ohio Panel to Quiz Diebold

County Commissioner and Dem County Chair Jimmy Dimora has delivered on his promise - to have an outside consulting firm examine the accuracy of Diebold's machines. (Recently the Chairman announced he will only vote absentee because he doesn't trust the voting machine companies) Go, Jimmy.

http://www.cleveland.com/community/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/cuyahoga/1151569862122511.xml&coll=2

"The maker of the Cuyahoga County election machines that failed to count ballots properly for the May 2 primary will appear today before a panel investigating the many foul-ups on Election Day.

Also appearing will be a Dayton-area firm that traditionally has printed the county's ballots but was skipped over this year in favor of a local but less experienced ballot printer.

County elections officials have criticized Diebold, which made the county's optical scan machines, for inadequate technical support before and on Election Day. But Diebold has deflected the criticism, noting that 47 other counties used the identical scanners to count absentee ballots -- without a problem.

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As part of its contract, SysTest also is reviewing election security issues, as is another company hired by Cuyahoga County commissioners. The commission contracted with Election Science Institute to check the accuracy of the new touch-screen voting machines. The firm will manually compare votes from paper receipts in the voting machines to votes recorded on memory cards.

That arguemnt by Diebold just doesn't cut it....

Would have been interesting to attend, no?

Yes, the unreliability of the voting machines needs to be explored. But, with so many instances, isn't there a bigger picture? Isn't there enough evidence throughout the country that leads logical thought to believe this is a plan? Surely some one person is the mastermind of this evil plan. It's being carried out and only challenged here and there. Hard to track down I'm sure, but a grand jury could put a scare into a lot of little fish to get to a bigger fish. There are some whistle blowers who can get the information flow started.

I just think people are in love with technology...

We live in a fast paced world....

And there are a lot of unqualified people making decisions....

Also coruption and greed....

But more of the first three....

They also discussed problems w/ inadequate numbers of machines in some precincts, problems w/ ptinting ballots, etc.

Right now, Ohio Dems can't do a great deal on the statewide level other than conduct their own investigations. The GOP controls every aspect of state government, so most Dem efforts to take action have been blocked.