Foxnews.com not reporting Diebold AP story out of Florida

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Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:46:29 -0500

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December 15, 2005

 

Foxnews.com not reporting Diebold AP story out of Florida

 

While FOX slobbers all over itself about the 'historic elections' in

Iraq today, congratulating Bush and by extension themselves for this

" victory " , they fail to make a peep about the revelations about the

widely used Diebold election systems here in the United States. The AP

is finally covering the stunning failure of security in Florida last

week, where a test election was hacked, the vote flipped and outcome

changed, and hackers escaped undetected.

 

This is OUR democracy hanging on the brink and the mainstream media

remains largely silent. FOX News, those flag-waving patriots, should

make this front-page news and demand that our election systems be the

finest, most trustworthy, impeccable systems in the world. How else

can we hold ourselves up as the leader and example?

 

Of course, that would mean Republicans couldn't steal any more

elections and we'd go back to the days of budget surpluses, prosperity

for everyone, positive job creation, and peace. Oh the horror.

 

The most recent story on FOXnews.com about Diebold is from November

29, and it is buried on the Technology page - not politics or national

news, mind you - technology. In that story, Diebold, " One of the

nation's leading suppliers of electronic voting machines may decide

against selling new equipment in North Carolina after a judge declined

Monday to protect it from criminal prosecution should it fail to

disclose software code as required by state law. "

 

The glorifying of democracy abroad when it is being tampered with at

home is the ultimate hypocrisy. I hold ALL the media accountable for

this shame. There is no good reason for our media to not go after this

scandal with every dime and the best reporters they have. There is

nothing less at stake here than our own democracy. A sham democracy

with pretend elections is not good enough to leave future generations.

 

Thank goodness for BradBlog, BlackBoxVoting and others who have not

let this issue go completely away.

You can go to VerifiedVoting.org to see pending legislation on this

issue, and contact your Senators and Representative to ask them to

co-sponsor and/or support clean elections.

Reported by chrish at December 15, 2005 08:47 PM

 

Foxnews.com not reporting Diebold AP story out of Florida

News Hounds - Newport Beach,CA,USA

 

.... Bush and by extension themselves for this " victory " , they fail to

make a peep about the revelations about the widely used Diebold

election systems here in the ...