Two very important things: I have every confidence that the NH Primary results were correct and accurate, and, most importantly, unmolested. And, I’m also quite happy with them. But that doesn’t mean I’m not anxiously awaiting the results of the hand recount that Congressman Kucinich has requested.
Conspiracy theories abound, and Diebold is a despicable company [...]

Posted January 14, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: AccuVote, AccuVote OS, democracy, diebold, election, new hampshire, primary, recount, voting fraud, voting machine. Be the first one.

Okay, even if this Diesel Sweeties cartoon is a little disheartening, please vote. The fact is, vote suppression is probably more likely than vote fraud.
A tip of the hat to Lichen for alerting me to this, and for making the point that our users’ notions of “authority” are among the fastest changing features of our [...]

Posted November 7, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: Democracy DIEs BOLDly, diebold, Diesel Sweeties, election, electronic voting, vote, vote manipulation, vote suppression, voting, voting fraud, voting machine, voting machines. Be the first one.

My dad, who’s called Florida home for quite a while now, emailed me the following about goings on there:
The big news here is the struggle to prevent Volusia County adopting the the Diebold touch screen ballot machines. They are bad news, because these Diebold machines do not leave a paper trail and so a manual [...]

Posted July 4, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: accounting for democracy, conspiracy, counting votes, diebold, diebold voting machine, election fraud, electronic voting, florida, fourth of july, fourthofjuly, george bush, handicapped, independence day, independenceday, july4, july4th, paper ballot, paper trail, recount, republican leaders, volusia county, vote count, voting machine, voting machines. One Comment.