Diebold Under Fire
Election Tampering Tampering Alert: Electronic voting machine maker Diebold Inc. is being sued by so-called whistle-blowers in California. The plaintiffs claim that Diebold's machines caused delays and deleted ballots in the March California primary, are programmed with uncertified software, and are vulnerable to hackers. An estimated 50 million voters will be casting electronic ballots this November.

Diebold, as you know, is a leader in the growing industry of paper-trail-free electronic voting machines, which became hot sellers after the 2000 election. Diebold has also been forced to cover its executives' tails after CEO Walden O'Dell pledged to "deliver [Ohio's] electoral votes for the president" in 2004. Honestly, is that so wrong? After all, if the good people at Diebold are going to invest the time, labor, and capital in building all these voting machines, it's only fair that they should pick the outcome.

We Billionaires stand in solidarity with O'Dell and Diebold. We may not all be CEOs of voting machine manufacturing companies, but every one of us is trying to rig this election in his or her own special way. Only when our electoral system is broken free from the shackles of universal suffrage will America truly become the best oligarchy it can be.

- posted by Colin A. Faver @ 6:17:17 PM