Who Is Cheryl Kagan?

Cheryl Kagan is the former Maryland Delegate who was anonymously mailed computer disks having to do with the Diebold electronic voting machines. But aside from mentioning previous concerns over electronic voting expressed by Kagan, they fail to mention that she is also an activist and was named in a 2004 lawsuit over ... you guessed it, Diebold voting machines. She was a candidate on the ballot.

You can confirm that in this pdf from the court hearing. (top link) But the kicker is that the disks are believed to have come from studies mandated by Maryland in 2003. So, let's connect a few dots. It might be interesting to look into some of the names in that pdf linked to the earlier study, but I digress.

Maryland Dems insist on a study in 2003. Kagan, part of the Maryland Dem apparatus, is alleged to have lost votes in 2004. Suddenly right before an election, disks from the 2003 study show up anonymously in Kagan's mail. Uh huh.

Are elections secure? Not as long as Dems are allowed to force studies and then conveniently drop a bombshell ten days before an election. Get ready. If the Dems don't prevail in November, it's going to be a long, long time before we know who is sworn into Congress come next term.

A Maryland election official said yesterday that possibly stolen computer disks believed to be electronic voting software were "apparently produced" for use by a testing firm hired by the Maryland legislature in November 2003.

Comments

[Skip]

Guys- our good Republican Governor here has launched a campaign against the use of this system- in fact there were a lot of screwups during the September primary. The Gov is calling for everybody to vote paper absentee in order to ensure your vote gets counted. Which I plan to do this week, so I don't think this is some Dem plot. In fact, the Dem State Senate President has praised the computer system???

[Ed Muntin]

"Dem State Senate President has praised the computer system"

I wonder how much that cost Diebold?

[JustOneSmarterMan]

Dan Rhiel doesn't want people to know that he writes under the name JustOneMan at Blogcritics.org

[Tax Analyst]

Riehl, your "logic" is pathetic. Before you suggest that people "connect the dots" you ought to at least know what they look like. You just weren't in the right line when they passed out "thinker's", were you?