Jeb Bush Quotes
You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.
Bush, Jeb. Interview by John King. John King, USA, CNN, 18 Oct. 2012.
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.
John Ellis "Jeb" Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd Governor of Florida from 1999 to 2007. Bush, who grew up in Houston, is the second son of the late former President George H. W. Bush and former First Lady Barbara Bush, and a younger brother of former President George W. Bush. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a degree in Latin American affairs. In 1980, he moved to Florida and pursued a career in real estate development, and in 1986 became Florida's Secretary of Commerce until 1988. At that time, he joined his father's successful campaign for the Presidency.
