Thanks to those crazy kookies that make up the County Board of Supervisors, we here in sunny San Diego can be a beacon for the rest of the nation when it comes to democracy. It seems Dianne Snaggle-Tooth-You-Can’t-Smoke-MJ-If-You’re-In-Pain-Because-Of-A-Silly-Terminal-Illness Jacob and her posse have hired a former Diebold employee as our new Registrar of Voters. And she is joining another unscrupulous character who stepped down from his position as elections director with Cuyahoga County after two of his election workers were convicted—not charged, mind you, but convicted—of trying to rig the 2004 election. Go read about it. Seriously. I dare you.
Please, someone, pass the AstroGlide. Getting screwed without it is really beginning to smart.
May 23, 2007 - 10:33 am at 10:33 am
GOD DAMN IT! Aaryn, may I use this story elsewhere? County Board swine – we should disembowel them on the courthouse steps.
May 23, 2007 - 10:44 am at 10:44 am
Take it away, Tony.
You’ll do it more justice than I ever could.
May 23, 2007 - 10:49 am at 10:49 am
I doubt that, Aaryn, but I’m taking it anyway. Thank you.
May 23, 2007 - 12:34 pm at 12:34 pm
We covered that in CityBeat this week: http://sdcitybeat.com/article.php?id=5772
May 23, 2007 - 12:39 pm at 12:39 pm
Read this exchange from a 2003 PBS online news report transcript:
SPENCER MICHELS: Computer scientists at Johns Hopkins University released a study this summer that indicates the software in some Diebold voting machines “had significant and wide- reaching security vulnerabilities” and that “a malevolent developer could easily make changes to the code.” That prompted Maryland and Ohio to put orders for the machines on hold. Seiler says the Hopkins study was flawed.
DEBORAH SEILER: They made assumptions about this being like a personal computer, which it isn’t. They made assumptions about this being hooked up to the Internet, which it’s never hooked up to the Internet. Neither this machine is hooked up to the Internet, nor is the ballot tabulation server hooked up to the Internet.
The above comment should give voters pause. For the sake of argument, let’s assume there is no conspiracy, no fraud in the works. Seiler’s semi-articulate criticism of the John’s Hopkins study was made in the same year Diebold was hacked
and internal documents exposed admitting there were “unauthorized” replacement electronic votes cast in Florida in the 2000 election. The fact that Seilers was such a cheerleader for these machines, and gave them clearly unqualified praise in the same year her own company was proven to know there were problems with them, would make any reasonable person suspect of her objectivity and automatically disqualify her from this position.
May 24, 2007 - 2:37 pm at 2:37 pm
Guess there’s more to this story still. Damn, D.A. – I was already pissed; now I’m livid. Why isn’t this front page news for every publication in this county? It’s absolutely egregious, and it’s the most obviously egregious of many egregious things from which to choose.
May 28, 2007 - 1:15 pm at 1:15 pm
Everything is what it is because it got that way.