Reply #39: Thank you, but major acclaim goes to Joyce McCloy

[Kelvin Mace]

As I posted earlier:

Diebold continued its pattern of arrogance yesterday when its attorney had the gall to cast aspersions on Joyce McCloy for running a grass roots campaign against a multi-billion dollar corporation. The voters of the North Carolina had one advocate group, Joyce's www.ncvoter.net which has run with NO money other than what volunteers have taken from their own pocket. Unlike some people I could name, Joyce does not even ask for donations to cover her time and expense and never has.

Diebold, on the other hand, has spent millions fighting her group and many others like hers. They have hired ITAA, a multi-million dollar lobbying firm to attack her and anyone else that DARED oppose the industry's atempt to fob off crappy, insecure voting machines on the voters. Diebold has harassed dozens of activists with bogus legal attacks claiming copyright infringement because they dared expose Diebold's questionable, and arguably illegal, activities.

Despite all their lawyers, money, and political clout, they have been thwarted by people like Joyce McCloy who had nothing on their side except the certainty that their cause was Right and Just.

I don't mean to shortchange some of the officials in NC who helped in this fight, epecially Sen. Ellie Kinnaird, Rep. Verla Insko, Sen. Austin Allran, and Rep. Susan Adams who took up the challenge and sponsored the law that Diebold tried to sidestep. Other volunteers also came up to bat for the voters, dedicating hundreds of hours of their time, like Justin Moore, Andy Silver, Janice Sears, Chuck Herrin, Warren Murphy, Joseph Waymack, Chris Telesca, Dennis Burns, and Bob Giudici, and many others I am forgetting. But in North Carolina, this fight started with Joyce McCloy, and she desrves the lioness' share of the credit.

I would like to ask you to join me in thanking Joyce McCloy for all of her incredibly hard work over the last two years, she is a true hero.