Oregon's Mail-In-Ballots "safe & secure" in the computer hands of DIEBOLD and ES&S?

We should be concerned about the ES&S vote scan machine that Multnomah County and other counties throughout the state and country use. For more information about who owns these machines, go to: www.madcowproductions.com. There is information about the investigation into who owns the machines and links to how to get a video documentary on the subject. As to who is opening the secrecy envelopes, the mostly retired folks who are manning the elections stations--it may be difficult to get others to do this job, as it is during normal work hours, and of course retired people are more available for those time slots. An important question is who has access to the voting machine software---the supervisor at the Mult. Co. elections office says to ask the Secretary of State, so that seems like the next step in getting some accountability into our vote system here. I think the bottom line is that we can never really be certain if our votes are counted the way we intend them to be with these voting machines. In the old days, and in Canada today, where votes are counted by hand, even though there may be some problems, it is a much more accountable system.

Were all Sequoia... Well, time to do some more research. Hey, and how about we figure out how to get a citizen's recount of the paper ballots? We have a paper trail but it's useless if we don't know how to use it.

"Worried about computerized democracy? You should be. You may have
already voted in 2004 — they just haven't yet told you whom you voted
for. Bev Harris gives you the real skinny on the Gatesification of our
ballot box."

— Greg Palast

Author, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy"

The question is....what are we going to do about it??

"It's hard to tell - I'm predicting between 49 and 50 percent because it's so close now," Newingham said. "By the time we finish processing the `problem' ballots and getting results back from the other counties where we share items on the ballot, we just might be over half."
 http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/05/19/a1.prezprimwrap.0519.html

I don't know if this person was talking about 50% voter turnout but I read that Oregon had about 25% voter turnout so did they throw half of the ballots out?

"The election office also has several wandlike tools used to pre-scan ballots for problems"

What is the wand for exactly?

Is there anyone who could pursue this in Oregon and find out how many ballots were tossed out? Dennis predicted problems with the ballots a few weeks ago.

With the proven problems with diebold, why are we accepting that Kerry is our nominee? Did everyone hear about how bad the primary was in Cali? We should go to the DNC this summer and DEMAND an open convention. WE don't believe diebold, we want the people to decide.