Yelladog links to a Raw Story feature on Diebold, the company that makes Georgia's new voting machines.

Raw Story is a liberal news organization, and many of their stories are controversial. But this story says, in short, that Georgia's 2002 election was stolen by the GOP.

Yelladog goes with the whole section on that election:

“Shortly before the election, ten days to two weeks, we were told that the date in the machine was malfunctioning,” the source recalled. “So we were told 'Apply this patch in a big rush.’” Later, the Diebold insider learned that the patches were never certified by the state of Georgia, as required by law.

“Also, the clock inside the system was not fixed,” said the insider. “It’s legendary how strange the outcome was; they ended up having the first Republican governor in who knows when and also strange outcomes in other races. I can say that the counties I worked in were heavily Democratic and elected a Republican.”

In Georgia’s 2002 Senate race, for example, nearly 60 percent of the state’s electorate by county switched party allegiances between the primaries and the general election.

The insider’s account corroborates a similar story told by Diebold contractor Rob Behler in an interview with Bev Harris of Black Box Voting.

Harris revealed that a program patch titled “rob-georgia.zip” was left on an unsecured server and downloaded over the Internet by Diebold technicians before loading the unauthorized software onto Georgia voting machines. “They didn’t even TEST the fixes before they told us to install them,” Behler stated, adding that machines still malfunctioned after patches were installed.

If there is truth in this story, and if it can be verified (those are large ifs), then the scandal will not likely hit Georgia Republicans unless it can be proven they knew what was going on. That's because the machines were bought, and managed, by Secretary of State Cathy Cox, a Democrat (and now a gubernatorial candidate herself) who has resisted every attempt by local activists to audit the system or the software.