September 30, 2004

Nervous about e-voting?

Probably not as nervous as the people in Solano County, California.

I think this quote catches the flavor of why people may view former Diebold employee/new county elections manager Deborah Seiler with some suspicion:
Seiler's move is a rare one, however -- an election official who left state employment to go work for a voting company, then came back to elections.
Seiler worked for Diebold--you know, the company who makes voting machines, whose president Wally O'Dell is one of Bush's high-level fund-raisers known as "Pioneers and Rangers." Remember the name?
O'Dell last fall penned a letter pledging his commitment "to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the President."
Right. Seiler worked for him. Now she works for Ira Rosenthal, Solano County's registrar of voters and chief information officer. Rosenthal is appointed, not elected.

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