Comments on: Diebold Drops Out of North Carolina http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2005/11/30/diebold-drops-out-of-north-carolina/ Progressive News and Opinion Since Nov. 3, 2004 Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:50:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: baltiMore http://www.trueblueliberal.com/2005/11/30/diebold-drops-out-of-north-carolina/#comment-290 baltiMore Mon, 19 Dec 2005 16:13:53 +0000 http://truebluestaging.dreamhosters.com/?p=1445#comment-290 "Section. 10. No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility" And, the "law" in NC doesn't prevent Deibold from making voting machines, it just prevents those machines from being used by the State for it's elections if Diebold won't (can't) comply. The law doesn't "force" Diebold to break it's contract, therefore there's no problem. It seems to me that if you want to make a REAL and STABLE Voting machine, you use an OpenSource like Linux that isn't proprietary and has no "secret code" clauses to use. It's 100% viewable, and a LOT more secure than Microsoft. Seems to me that if you want stable and secure, you avoid Microsoft at all costs. And if you want "State contracts", you use systems that let people see you're not hiding anything. “Section. 10. No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation; grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal; coin Money; emit Bills of Credit; make any Thing but gold and silver Coin a Tender in Payment of Debts; pass any Bill of Attainder, ex post facto Law, or Law impairing the Obligation of Contracts, or grant any Title of Nobility”

And, the “law” in NC doesn’t prevent Deibold from making voting machines, it just prevents those machines from being used by the State for it’s elections if Diebold won’t (can’t) comply. The law doesn’t “force” Diebold to break it’s contract, therefore there’s no problem.

It seems to me that if you want to make a REAL and STABLE Voting machine, you use an OpenSource like Linux that isn’t proprietary and has no “secret code” clauses to use. It’s 100% viewable, and a LOT more secure than Microsoft. Seems to me that if you want stable and secure, you avoid Microsoft at all costs. And if you want “State contracts”, you use systems that let people see you’re not hiding anything.

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