Blogged by Brad Friedman from the Kansas/Colorado border…
Salt Lake City Weekly covers the state’s recent electoral woes in the wake of moving to Diebold touch-screen voting machines. They even use a word we reference often here at The BRAD BLOG in regard to upcoming elections: “train wreck.”
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The presidential primary in February might be a good test of what is in store next year. Utah is participating in Super Tuesday with Mitt Romney on the ballot, and Swensen expects at least 40 percent turnout. If the vote goes anything like the recent city election, it could be a train wreck.
Utah, of course, was the home of one of the most notorious touch-screen voting system investigations in the country when Emery County Clerk Bruce Funk allowed renowned computer security expert Harri Hursti and e-voting watchdog group BlackBoxVoting.org to examine the new Diebold touch-screen systems forced on him for use by the state.
Their startling vulnerabilities revealed in the Diebold systems by the study were described at the time as a “major national security risk” and “the most severe security flaw ever discovered in a voting system” by Election Integrity, Voting System and Computer Security experts.
For his diligence on behalf of his voters, Funk, the 23-year elected County Clerk, was subsequently locked out of his office and removed from his job with the support of the very state officials who had gone into business with Diebold to create the mess the state now faces.
What happens if the exit polls say “it’s close” and Hillary wins primary after primary by a landslide? Would Democrats see this as the time to finally get involved in electronic voting machine issues, or would they just accuse Hillary of having hacked the election?
Maybe it’s just me…but aren’t election officials supposed to count all the votes, isn’t that the whole point of the job. I hope we don’t start having this problem at the sewer plant–>turd officials say today that the broken sewer plant isn’t the problem, the problem is all the turds, stop pooping
Jim Matheson, my brother in Iraq would like to thank you for allowing W to still remain in office and would like to see you continue to sidestep any real reform so we may remove you from office as soon as possible. This message brought to you by JIM MATHESON FOR UTARDS.
Poor Sherrie Swensen. She has suffered immeasurably from the switch to Diebold, (or whatever.) She has said more then once that she would have preferred to stick with the punch card system and nobody can deny it was a much cheaper and reliable way to count votes, (that is if you trust the software.)
Unless Keith Olbermann and Rocky Anderson misspoke on Rocky’s interview on that program, John Kerry actually won the Salt Lake County 2004 election. Our Bush friendly news media never told us that, but I think it’s a distinct possibility.
Salt Lake is the county Swenson is charged with overseeing. I poll watched in Ogden, and saw some strange things going on there including doors that covered up the paper printouts which judges were ordered to keep closed rather then being removed before the election.