Whose idea was it to have a private company hold election results?

[AndyA]

This seems like an incredibly bad idea. Allowing a private company to run election machines AND RETAIN ELECTION RESULTS. If this is legal, WHY is it legal?

Seems to me election results should be under the care of a trusted public entity, if there are any left in America today.

[liberal N proud]

1. I think it was the winners of the last 3 or 4 elections

The very ones who's friends own the private companies.

[thefloyd]

2. Facists

enough said

[HysteryDiagnosis]

3. Who said that it was legal?? They just decided to do it, same as

the illegal wiretapping... they just frigging decided to do it because they feel that no one can stop them.

[The Backlash Cometh]

4. Remember this? P-R-I-V-I-T-I-Z-A-T-I-O-N?

Once the Republicans took office, privitization was suppose to make things cheaper for us. Of course it isn't cheaper. But it's a nifty way to filter public money to cronies, and it is also a nice place to hide secrets and do things outside of the public sunshine laws.

[killbotfactory]

5. GOP, they love privatization

more efficient*, don't you know... :eyes:

And, hey, why bother to make them prove their product does what they claim. Let's just trust them! Why would they lie?


*efficient in this case meaning being able to have elite corporate interests rake a profit off the top of a service where there is no competition.

[mrcheerful]

6. Now which party thinks everything needs to be Privatized hmmmmmm

lets see could it be RE-PUB-LIC-ANS? Who's ideal is that the Government has no business in funding anything except wars and corporate america? Hmmmmmm lets see, Could it be RE-PUB-LIC-ANS?

[punpirate]

7. Umm, as I recall...

... Bob Ney (R-CORRUPT), was the principal sponsor of HAVA. Since both Ney and Diebold are from Ohio, it's not too hard to see how electronic machines became dominant because of the way HAVA was written....

[MissWaverly]

8. Juicy articles on Ney, links below

Nonetheless, Ney received $56,500 from the lobbyists and their tribal clients from 2001 to 2004, the same time period that he is alleged to have engaged in actions favorable to Abramoff's purchase of the SunCruz casinos. (Washington Post, 1/4/06; Bloomberg, 11/22/05; Columbus Dispatch, 1/3/06)
http://www.ourfuture.org/issues_and_campaigns/accountablecongress/ney/rapsheet.cfm

The Soon-to-be-Indicted Rep. Bob Ney of Ohio's Connection To Electoral Fraud
The Dots Connect Between Abramoff, Ohio 2004 Election Smokescreen and Ney's Former Staffer Revealed to be on Diebold's Payroll While Working for White House Law Firm
All the While as HAVA -- America's 'Election Reform' Bill -- is Used for Political Payoff in the Bargain...

http://htdaw.blogsource.com/post.mhtml?post_id=180444

[meow2u3]

9. It's gotta be the repukes

After all, they love to keep the truth from the American people. They're the fascist bastards who think corporate power trumps democracy itself.