Diebold told the AP that convicted embezzler Jeffrey Dean was no longer with the company. But deposition transcripts reportedly indicate that Diebold called Dean back for “consulting work” a few months after Cox signed the voting machine contract, ... 1/ link.medium.com/Cd96ZEox5kb
... as initially disclosed by author Bev Harris. 2/
5/ Hood “was surprised to see the president of Diebold’s election unit, Bob Urosevich, arrive in Georgia.... With the primaries looming, Urosevich was personally distributing a ‘patch,’ a little piece of software designed to correct glitches...” jennycohn1.medium.com/max-cleland-ri…
6/ "Diebold initially denied installing the illegal software patches in Georgia, but eventually copped to it after internal documents were leaked that confirmed it."
7/ "Cleland unexpectedly lost to Chambliss by 7 points even though election polls on the “eve of the..election showed. … Cleland ahead … by 2–5 points,” a swing of 9–12 points.
8/ "In 2009, Cleland published his memoir, Heart of a Patriot: How I Found the Courage to Survive Vietnam, Walter Reed, and Karl Rove."
9/ "In it, Cleland reflected on Georgia’s red tsunami in 2002.”I lost, the governor lost, the speaker of the Georgia house lost, and many Democratic members of the state senate and house who had voted to change the [confederate] flag lost."
10/ "Forty counties flipped from Democrat to Republican in south Georgia alone,” Cleland wrote.
11/ "Referring to the uncertified software patches, Cleland remarked that '[t]he machines were clearly adjusted by people who were not election officials. "
12/ "I don’t know if the adjustment flipped Democratic votes to Republican, as has been alleged. The Diebold machines do not provide a verifiable paper trail…There is nothing for election officials to review in the event of a recount," Cleland added.
13/ Cleland has said that the trauma of his election loss was “worse than coming back from Vietnam…Worse than being blown up.”
14/ “The Senate gave me a sense of meaning, purpose and destiny,” Cleland explained. “When you lose that you’ve lost something profound. It’s more than an arm. It’s more than a leg.”
15/ Cleland never ran for office again, although he did actively campaign for Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. He died this week. He was 79 years old. #RIPMaxCleland 
16/ "For Max Cleland, Politics Was A Refuge From War" Then he met Karl Rove... npr.org/templates/stor…
17/ "Max Cleland, Vietnam Veteran and Former Senator, Dies at 79"
"He lost both legs and an arm in the war. Republicans [Karl Rove & Rick Wilson] impugned his patriotism by linking him to Osama bin Laden in an infamous TV spot."
nytimes.com/2021/11/09/us/…
"He lost both legs and an arm in the war. Republicans [Karl Rove & Rick Wilson] impugned his patriotism by linking him to Osama bin Laden in an infamous TV spot."
nytimes.com/2021/11/09/us/…
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