# Should we be worried? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 14, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-be-worried/234238 "2004-03-14T16:31:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-be-worried/234238/1 "2004-03-14T16:31:38Z")
While reading through some back issues of[_News of the Weird_](http://www.newsoftheweird.com/archive/nw030921.html), I came across this: _“And the CEO of Diebold Inc., a leading manufacturer of voting machines that register votes through the company’s unique technology, committed to support President Bush’s re-election and wrote a fund-raising letter for Ohio Republicans (August). [Plain Dealer, 8-28-03]”_ I guess GWB needs all the help he can get! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-be-worried/234238/2 "2004-03-14T16:59:43Z")
How is this any different then other company CEO’s supporting Dubya? ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-be-worried/234238/3 "2004-03-14T17:06:20Z")
Sorry, I was being ironic. I guess I thought the previous voting machine brewhaha would be remembered. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-be-worried/234238/4 "2004-03-14T17:38:46Z")
> [@ParentalAdvisory](#): > > How is this any different then other company CEO’s supporting Dubya? There’s an old quote, attributed Josef Stalin (among others,) that says, “The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” If you like, I can politely dance around the point some more. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-be-worried/234238/5 "2004-03-14T23:14:50Z")
Yes we should be worried. ---
**Author:** ![gluteus\_maximus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/f17d59/32.png) [@gluteus\_maximus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gluteus_maximus)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2004, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-be-worried/234238/6 "2004-03-14T23:24:09Z")
I think the voting machine contracts should only go to manufacturers in Afghanistan and Iraq. I mean other that Haliburton and Bechtel. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-be-worried/234238/7 "2004-03-15T04:31:29Z")
> [@AskNott](#): > > There’s an old quote, attributed Josef Stalin (among others,) that says, “The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything.” If you like, I can politely dance around the point some more. :rolleyes: Ahh, I see. You mean like those doing the recount in Florida? ---
**Author:** ![Necro\_Romancer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/50afbb/32.png) [@Necro\_Romancer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necro_Romancer)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-be-worried/234238/8 "2004-03-15T07:34:50Z")
_Whoosh!_ ---
**Author:** ![E.Thorp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@E.Thorp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E.Thorp)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 8:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-be-worried/234238/9 "2004-03-15T08:00:32Z")
I’m worried. But I’m strangely comforted that this issue was raised in **News of the Weird**. In any case, what’s needed is a guaranteed paper trail. ---
**Author:** ![Tortuga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c4cdca/32.png) [@Tortuga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tortuga)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2004, 11:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/should-we-be-worried/234238/10 "2004-03-15T11:33:28Z")
You folks might enjoy this bit of voting flash media then: [http://www.ericblumrich.com/gta.html](http://www.ericblumrich.com/gta.html)