Voting Group Leery of State Contractor. "Keith Long"

[Joanne98]

News
Sunday, November 13, 2005
Voting group leery of state contractor

By Mark Binker
Staff Writer
RALEIGH -- The man hired to help North Carolina determine which voting machines counties should use has extensive experience working for two of the manufacturers submitting bids to the state.

Whether that experience should be considered asset or liability depends on who's talking.

Keith Long's job is to find vendors to sell voting equipment to local election boards and determine whether that equipment meets federal and state guidelines.

As recently as Oct. 1, 2004, Long worked for Diebold Election Systems, and between 1983 and 1992 he worked for Sequoia Pacific Voting Systems. Both Diebold and Sequoia are bidding to work in North Carolina.

http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051113/NEWSREC0101/511130328
Keith Long was the project manager, responsible for installing 22,000 Diebold machines in Georgia in 2002.
Isnt that interesting....

[annabanana]

1. Now why on Earth would that give them pause?

:sarcasm: