Die, Bold!! Die!!!
Man smashes voting machines, will be canonized soon.
By First Punch
Article Published May 10, 2006
As expected, the premiere for new electronic voting machines made Tuesday's primary more confusing than trying to introduce Xbox to an old-folks home.
There were problems printing the ballots, memory cards were lost, and some polling places were offline for hours as workers struggled to get the Diebold machines up and running.
So 61-year-old Marc Fenster discovered a unique and productive way to relieve his frustration. He stormed into a polling station on Jennings Road in Cleveland and started whaling on one machine like a guy from Detroit celebrating a Pistons championship.
Patrick Wallenhorst, who was trying to vote at the time, says Fenster was "just smashing away at it with both arms."
But while Diebold's machines suck at actually collecting votes, they're apparently manufactured to take quite a beating. Fenster's repeated blows hardly dented the machine. So he picked it up and smashed it on the ground. "That's when it just went into pieces," says Wallenhorst, who grabbed Fenster and escorted him outside as volunteer workers called the cops.
Yet Fenster would not be deterred. He pushed his way back in and picked up another machine, trashing it on the ground.
Wallenhorst says that Fenster, who was eventually arrested, described the assault as his "civic duty."
In that case, carry on, good sir.
more at link...
By First Punch
Article Published May 10, 2006
As expected, the premiere for new electronic voting machines made Tuesday's primary more confusing than trying to introduce Xbox to an old-folks home.
There were problems printing the ballots, memory cards were lost, and some polling places were offline for hours as workers struggled to get the Diebold machines up and running.
So 61-year-old Marc Fenster discovered a unique and productive way to relieve his frustration. He stormed into a polling station on Jennings Road in Cleveland and started whaling on one machine like a guy from Detroit celebrating a Pistons championship.
Patrick Wallenhorst, who was trying to vote at the time, says Fenster was "just smashing away at it with both arms."
But while Diebold's machines suck at actually collecting votes, they're apparently manufactured to take quite a beating. Fenster's repeated blows hardly dented the machine. So he picked it up and smashed it on the ground. "That's when it just went into pieces," says Wallenhorst, who grabbed Fenster and escorted him outside as volunteer workers called the cops.
Yet Fenster would not be deterred. He pushed his way back in and picked up another machine, trashing it on the ground.
Wallenhorst says that Fenster, who was eventually arrested, described the assault as his "civic duty."
In that case, carry on, good sir.
more at link...
posted by Kangaroo Brisbane Australia at 12:50 AM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home