[ThinkSouth] Vote counting
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Warwick Sabin
Nov 2, 2005, 11:03:55 AM11/2/05
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Arkansas Secretary of State Charlie Daniels this week announced that Election Systems & Software (ES&S) of Omaha, Neb., has been selected to provide counties with updated voting equipment that meets standards set by the Help America Vote Act (HAVA) of 2002.
According to a press release, "ES&S was selected over Diebold, Inc. of Canton, Ohio, which submitted the only other qualifying bid."
Diebold is the Republican-backing outfit whose leader famously promised to do whatever was necessary to elect George W. Bush, not long before a suspiciously large margin for Bush in Diebold's home state of Ohio (and a suspicious shortage of machines in precincts expected to vote Democratic.)
But ES&S doesn't come with clean hands either. Central Arkansas voters might remember ES&S as the architect of the infamous touch screen machines that kept registering votes for Republican Bob Thomas instead of U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder in the 2000 2nd District congressional election. And this is just one of ES&S's past foibles.
With Georgia recently trying to require citizens to present government-issued photo identification in order to vote, add voter machines to the growing list of concerns surrounding the basic integrity of the electoral process in Southern states.
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Posted by Warwick Sabin to ThinkSouth at 11/02/2005 10:36:00 AM
According to a press release, "ES&S was selected over Diebold, Inc. of Canton, Ohio, which submitted the only other qualifying bid."
Diebold is the Republican-backing outfit whose leader famously promised to do whatever was necessary to elect George W. Bush, not long before a suspiciously large margin for Bush in Diebold's home state of Ohio (and a suspicious shortage of machines in precincts expected to vote Democratic.)
But ES&S doesn't come with clean hands either. Central Arkansas voters might remember ES&S as the architect of the infamous touch screen machines that kept registering votes for Republican Bob Thomas instead of U.S. Rep. Vic Snyder in the 2000 2nd District congressional election. And this is just one of ES&S's past foibles.
With Georgia recently trying to require citizens to present government-issued photo identification in order to vote, add voter machines to the growing list of concerns surrounding the basic integrity of the electoral process in Southern states.
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Posted by Warwick Sabin to ThinkSouth at 11/02/2005 10:36:00 AM
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