Utah County Clerk Under Attack for Questioning Diebold Machines

[kpete]

Kpete, did not see ELECTION THREAD but thought I would post this:



Utah County Clerk Under Attack for Questioning Diebold Machines
by Clifflyon
Tue Mar 28, 2006 at 11:45:21 AM PDT
I just got off the phone with Utah Emery County Clerk Bruce Funk who is under fire for bringing to light his concerns about the Diebold voting machines delivered to his office. He is a soft spoken man and a classic patriotic American in the Utah tradition. As I write this, he documenting the events of last night (which I will post) in which Utah State Officials came down to Emery County and excluded Bruce from a series of closed door meetings with Diebold officials and county commissioners after which Bruce was encouraged to resign.

“They made me a pretty nice offer if I resign, but then I thought, no, if I resign, then what kind of person am I after all these years of protecting our voting rights”.

Thankfully, Bruce is completely unaware of the kind of tactics that have been used against whistleblowers in other states who have dared to expose the myriad of technical and ethical problems with the way Diebold machines have been shoved down out throats.

Utah biggest daily, the Salt Lake Tribune quoted Funk:

Diebold's $40,000 estimate is exaggerated to frighten other clerks from questioning the machines' integrity, Funk said. "What they are really saying is, 'We don't want anyone else to think of doing this.'

“ Commissioner Ira Hatch said Emery County will go forward with the Diebold machines.”. "We've decided we are going have Diebold come and go through these machines and see if they are compromised," he said, adding the company may be able to work with them on reducing the cost.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/3/28/134521/609