Reply #1: MO: Cleland decries Diebold, Questions “accuracy of systems” in GA & OH!!

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Well, how about that! This is a formidable spokesman and the FIRST prominent national Democrat to take on the “machine” people, just slamming them. THANK YOU Sen. Cleland.



http://www.stltoday.com/blogs/news-politicalfix/2006/03/demo-days-cleland-calls-bush-a-disaster

POLITICAL FIX
Demo Days: Cleland calls Bush a “disaster” By Jo Mannies 03/05/2006 12:45 am
Former U.S. Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., energized and frightened Missouri Democrats Saturday as he laid out the stakes for the party and the country.
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“There’s only one man in the Bush administration with combat experience — Dick Cheney after he went duck hunting,'’ Cleland said.

Cleland added that he also was concerned about the integrity of the new voting systems, and questioned the accuracy of the Diebold systems in use in Georgia and Ohio. In Ohio in 2004, he asserted “there was a lot of funny business'’ with the voting systems, such putting too few machines in Democratic precincts.

“It’s insane for us to install democracy in Iraq when we don’t even have it in our own country.'’

In a brief interview afterwards,