rent vs. lease

["Paul Tiger - LPBC - Outreach" <outreach@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ah sad but true.

Between the rental or leasing of equip, there is a diff and its about cost
control and commitment. A lease is a commitment to purchase a percentage of
the equipment over a term. At the end of the term the purchase can be
completed; newer equipment re-leased with some value trade back; etc. Leases
vary, but the goal of a lease by a seller is to SELL.
If I rent a car for two weeks from my Ford dealer, they are not expecting me
to buy it. If I lease if for three years, they expect me to buy it or do
something in the way of a purchase.

I wonder if anyone is aware that every year since we started having
mail-ballot elections the clerk rents a Diebold scanner for the ballot
envelopes? It is hooked up to Diebold computers using a copy of the voter
database to make sure that the barcodes on the envelopes are related to
actual voters, and that there is only one envelope with each barcode.
Since we may have a mail-ballot election for general and/or for special
elections every odd numbered year - why are we renting this scanner? Why
haven't we bought it? Is it possible that the clerk thinks that it is a bad
investment because mail-ballots might go away? Or just more stupidity? Or
perhaps the fear of buying something with the name Diebold on it?

paul

-----Original Message-----
From: Lou Puls [mailto:lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 2:10 PM
To: cvv-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: lpuls@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Discussion of ERC Report FINAL


Paul Tiger apparently wrote (to me the referencing is ambiguous):

>What the ERC did say was RENT not lease. There is a huge difference, which
>appears to have been lost on the elections division.
>Buyers who cannot afford to drop a bundle at one time are invited to lease.
>At the end of the lease they can pay off the remainder and own the
>equipment.
>Renters are checking things out. They are not buyers, yet. Or maybe they'll
>never be buyers, just renters.
>Renting is way cheaper than leasing, and rental contracts more flexible
than
>leases.

And there is a huge difference between BUYING and LEASING.  The BoCo
Commissioners irrevocably BOUGHT the (reduced) Hart-interCivic system
against my lone plea to use our hard-won and considerable leverage to LEASE
it under a contract-performance timeline, where they would have to
demonstate that such Micro$oft-based junkware really worked as claimed and
was worthy of continuation or purchase.  But no, they BOUGHT it (even though
HAVA did not at all preclude such LEASING) in hopes of someday getting
freebie dollars (dream on) in exchange for selling out control of our
election processes.  Those who meekly, ignorantly, trustingly surrender
their rights will indeed lose them - it's those who are dragged kicking and
screaming down along with them who do not deserve to lose their rights.  As
usual, if we really want our rights back, it's Seeya in Court (dream on).

ITYS,
Lou Puls

"By employing religious force in the service of its political
considerations, the Roman Empire aroused a spirit which at that outset it
had not considered possible."
- Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, later founder of the German National Church,
1933.






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