Diebold Implicated! (Well, Almost.)
From James Taranto comes word that indeed we may have a Diebold lawsuit after all. One guess which side wants to sue.
One advantage of Democrats winning last week’s elections is that we’ve been spared all the complaints about “stolen” elections. Well, almost all of them. In Florida’s 13th District, vacated by Rep. Katherine Harris for her ill-starred Senate run, Republican Vern Buchanan eked out a victory by about 400 votes. Angry Left teen idol Markos “Kos” Moulitsas is crying foul:
Down in Florida, an epic battle is brewing over the electronic Diebold voting machines that ate 18,000 votes for Democrat Christine Jennings in FL-13 and cost her the election.
Not only is an expensive recount in the cards, but campaign and DCCC [Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee] lawyers are flocking down, demanding the state freeze the machines for inspection.
These are the opening salvos in what will be the battle to end Diebold.
But only 36 people have given via our Blue Majority Act Blue page for the legal battles ahead.
To put it bluntly, to anyone who has ever complained about Diebold, this is your chance to put your money where your mouth is. No more talk needed. No more advocacy needed. This is a real-world, legal frontal assault on those electronic voting machines.
If we win this battle, you’ll be able to kiss Diebold goodbye.
A little later in the day, Kos had an update:
Update II: Machines in FL-13 were made by ES&S. Same difference.
Taranto notes that ES&S, Electric Systems and Software, Inc, is a Diebold competitor. Again, it’s the Left putting up a heads-I-win-tails-you-cheated scenario, even if the “evil” Diebold isn’t involved. How unserious and knee-jerk can you get?
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Isn’t ES&S the company that uses the software that some Venezuelan company bought?
Heh, good point, but I don’t even know if they are using touch screen voting machines in Venezuela.