What's Wrong With Diebold: A Video

This 15 minute video provides one of the clearest explanations of why Diebold electronic voting machines are so unreliable and easily gamed. It's best to view it after downloading it to your computer so you can enlarge the viewing screen and see all the details. A recent article on OpEdNews, "The Diebold Bombshell," reveals the company has actually admitted to the severe security flaws in its machines. In fact, they've stated they created the back door entryway into the software on purpose, despite the security vulnerabilities created by doing so.

Of course, here in New Mexico we're supposed to be immune to the dangers of DRE voting machines because of the bill passed at the January Legislative Session that requires a switch to paper ballot voting systems statewide. Election reform activists are still hoping that all our counties will obtain and implement the new system in time for the November election. We've heard that Bernalillo County Clerk Mary Herrera is trying hard to have the new system up and running in the Albuquerque area by election day, but she's also admitted she's not sure that can be accomplished.

Let's hope the powers that be in this state work together to make sure we're all voting with the new system come November. Anything less would once again put the accuracy of election results in jeopardy. We can't afford to let that happen and we need to keep the pressure on at all levels. Every vote must be counted and every vote must be documented by a paper trail. Anything less is completely unacceptable given all we know about the serious security flaws discovered in the electronic machines. Without a paper trail, all electronic machines are suspect, not just those manufactured by Diebold.

As Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. says in his recent must-read interview on BradBlog,

... our electoral system is broken for three reasons, in three large respects: The first is our campaign finance system, which is a system of legalized bribery, and which has allowed corporations and the very rich to control the results of our electoral process. Number two is the failure of the American press and that is also a function and result of corporate control, as I showed in my book. Number three is the election system itself, which is broken. We've privatized it and allowed four large corporations to count our votes on machines that don't work.

We've got our work cut out for us on all three fronts.