Ohio Politics Quotes
Diebold was the manufacturer of Computerized Voting Machines which had more than 130,000 in service by 2006 serving millions of voters. The University of Maryland and others had done studies on the Diebold machines and demonstrated that there were a number of different ways that the vote count could be tampered with by someone wishing to control the vote results. Although not illegal for a voting machine manufacturer with knowledge of how to rig their voting machines, this quotation was used by the many people who opposed computerized voting machines generically and many who suspected a strong partisan vote rigging capability to support their positions.
Ohio was then supporting Warren G. Harding.
In the Republican convention of 1860, William H. Seward lead Abraham Lincoln for the presidential nomination on the first two ballots. The third ballot showed that Lincoln only one and a half votes short of a majority. Salmon P. Chase was the governor of Ohio and its delegation was chaired by D. K. Cartter. Joseph Medill was Lincoln's "floor manager" and said to Cartter:. The Ohio delegation changed three votes, putting Lincoln over the top. Lincoln had told Medill and others to make no bargains in his name and stated he would not honor such. Lincoln was nominated and elected. He appointed Salmon P. Chase to the U. S. Supreme Court.
