The Diebold vs. Honesty saga continues

In yet another flagrant display of how scared Diebold and the Republican party are of a voting fraud investigation, Alaska has refused to turn over the vote results that are supposed to be PUBLIC RECORD. Anyone should be able to go down to their registrar's office and ask to see the vote results, but for some reason, Diebold has this shield of invisibility. Could it be that the former head honcho over there is a huge supporter of Republicans? This is the guy that publicly stated that his company was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President".

The Democratic party is simply trying to investigate voting irregularities, which happened in other districts that used Diebold machines. If there was no voting fraud, turn over the data and prove it. Otherwise it's a "The lady doth protest too much" scenario.

For those of you thinking "Bush won, get over it", I say this: Just because he "won" doesn't mean that he, or his political party, aren't capable of fraud. Were the roles reversed and Gore or Kerry had won against Bush, and fraud were suspected, wouldn't you want an investigation just to be sure that the next election will be more accurate? Otherwise, we are politically nothing more than a banana republic (and I'm not talking about the store at the mall).

By the way, Diebold's primary competitor is a company called ES & S and it's owned/run by the brother of the owner/honcho over at Diebold (the Urosevitch brothers). Together the count around 80% (if not more) of the votes in this country, and based on what Alaska's government says, those votes are off limits.

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