MS Election Clerk Says 'No Way to Tamper With Diebold Touch-Screen Voting Machines'

[BradBlog]

'There is No Way for Them to be Tampered With': Mississippi Election Clerk Gets Approval to Remove Paper Trail Printers from Diebold Touch-Screens

The Jones County, Mississippi slogan is "A Great Place to Live". While they may or may not be true, I've never been there, it's clearly not a great place to vote. At least if voting in a way that is verifiably accurate for the citizenry is something one might care about. A remarkable statement by the county's Circuit Clerk, and a unanimous decision in support of it by the County's Board of Supervisors this week has made that as clear as can be.

You may recall that just last week, e-voting system failures --- such as, as e-voting machines that wouldn't start up at all, and votes that were counted twice --- led to chaos and uncertain results in Mississippi's state primaries, leading one official to declare days afterward, as they were all struggling to sort out results of several close elections: "At this point there is no election...Everyone is baffled."

Against that back drop then, behold what Jones County, MS Circuit Clerk Bart Gavin is now calling for --- and receiving unanimous approval from the Jones County Board of Supervisors for(!) --- as irresponsibly reported without even a hint of fact-checking by Laurel Leader-Call reporter Charlotte Graham under the laughably misleading headline "Improving the voting process"...

FULL STORY: http://www.bradblog.com/?p=8682

[valerief]

1. Mississippi: America's Somalia. nt

[Rex]

2. I see Diebold white trucks about once a week.

What do they do all day?

[IDemo]

13. Likely working on ATM's

Doesn't that make you feel more secure about your money?

:scared:

[DCKit]

3. OK, so we've identified one particular state and county where our Teabagging friends...

might find their Randian paradise - even if it is kind'a small.

They don't need a whole lot of room folks. They just want to be free, and that doesn't mean going outside. A massive trailer park (surrounding a WalMart) would do it.

Let's put our heads together and give 'em what they want.

[LuvNewcastle]

5. I used to live in Jones County, about

25 years ago. You've got the right idea about what the place is like. I doubt it's changed much, either, since most of the good people get the fuck out of there if they can and only the dregs are left.

[Rowdyboy]

4. Hey, you're talking about my hometown! They were the first county in Mississippi

to go Republican way back in the early '60's. A bunch of unreconstructed troglodytes who deserve the representation they get.

[BradBlog]

6. Do you still live there?...

...And would you like to print out a copy of my story and walk it over to the Circuit Clerk's office and give it to Bart Gavin, since he doesn't seem to reply to email?

Bonus points if you can do it with an iPad so you can actually show him the video I included in it. Clearly, he hasn't seen it (and it's even from Fox "News"!)

[Rowdyboy]

8. Oh God no, I got out of that hellhole when I turned 18 in 1972....

Some parts of Mississippi are even worse than others and Laurel is one of the worst.

[BradBlog]

9. So then their motto...

...that Jones County is "A Great Place to Live!" may not be so accurate then?

Here's hoping their voting machines are more so! But, of course, no one will ever know, will they?

Still looking for someone in or near Laurel/Jones County to stop by the Circuit Clerk's office with a copy of my article for Mr. Gavin!

[jwirr]

7. Someone should prove it to him. Set his pretty box up and let us

play.

[gratuitous]

10. Oh, well if you're going to try

Then, yeah, I suppose the voting machines could be tampered with. But who would ever try to do that, unless it was some commie hippie socialist.

[jwirr]

11. Like us. Of course.

[blkmusclmachine]

12. In a rotten economy, MS can't afford the smoke and mirrors.

n/t