Pay attention all you states who are thinking of using electronic voting machines.
“Despite a ban on political contributions from Diebold executives, implemented in June of 2004 after the voting machine corporation's chief executive officer, Walden O'Dell,came under heavy criticism for hosting afund raiser forr George W. Bush and signing a letter promising to deliver Ohio's electoral college vote to him. One Diebold leader apparently never got the memo about the ban. USA Today published an insightful story last year on O'Dell trouble and his ban, that provides background to his voting machine company's political woes.
A who's up for reelection in 2006. Why let a little thing like the company's policy prohibiting such contributions stop Tabib from writing out a check to DeWine? By the way, DeWine will have at least one Democratic Party challenger next year, none other than Iraqi warvet Paul Hackett. You may have read Hackett's namein thee news lately because he lost a special election for Ohio's second district seat in the House of Representatives in August. Who beat him? Rep. "Mean Jean" Schmidt, the vicious Congresswoman who took to the House floor a few weeks back to defame former Marine Rep. John Murtha after he called for American troop reductions in Iraq. Tabib's monetary gift to DeWine shows one thing about Diebold. When they say something is company policy, it doesn't mean all that much."
I understand computers and electronic communication quite well and I can assure you that any system can be compromised. If you are going to insist on using electronic voting apparatus, then the machine should at least print-out two paper ballots--on to go into the verification process and on to show you how your vote was counted--a receipt.
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