Comment by David McElroy (1027)

Entered on: 8/8/2007 8:08:01 AM

Well!
You didn't think those Diebold electronic voting machines were provided by and for Republicans to guarantee an honest election, did you? They are desperate to discount and delete Ron Paul. And they will use the means proven so successful in rigging elections...electronic voting machines.

Comment by Ed Vallejo (5272)

Entered on: 8/8/2007 10:24:22 AM

Iowa GOP Extorting Ron Paul Campaign
Director of communications for the Ron Paul Campaign, Jesse Benton, stated today that the Iowa GOP would charge the Paul camp $184,000 if they wanted to verify a paper count of the coming Iowa straw poll. Today, on the Dale Williams radio show, Mr. Benton said there will be a manual electronic count of the Iowa poll results. What Mr. Benton did not explain, as exposed in a previous National Expositor Article, "it is commonly known that this manual count" with Diebold machines "would only consist of spot checks of the voting machines for device calibration purposes. This does not constitute a verifiable check of the accuracy from either an engineering or statistical perspective."

http://www.nationalexpositor.com/index.php?news=231

(thanks to ronpaulforums.com for pointing this out)

Comment by Trouser Chili (6119)

Entered on: 8/8/2007 12:10:57 PM

I wonder what their level of urgency would be if they thought that there was a hacking threat from a self-motivated Ron Paul computer expert? After all, aren't all of the on-line polls still being cleverly spammed by Ron Paul supporters?