Did you know the hardware and software used in electronic voting machines (DREs) is considered proprietary and cannot be inspected by outside experts? That means that a small number of people could easily program DREs to flip votes, and the evidence of this crime would be safely locked inside the machines, with no way that anyone (except for the manufacturers) to know with 100% certainty that votes were accurately counted, or even if they were counted at all. And paper trails are only useful if they are actually counted. They often aren’t.
As Josef Stalin (allegedly) said, "It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes."
This is potentially a democracy nightmare, where private companies are allowed to count the votes with absolutely zero transparency or accountability. We might as well have the vote count done at Guantanamo Bay by Blackwater.
But there are a few patriots out there who are ceaselessly fighting to expose this potential crisis. One is Clint Curtis, a software developer turned whistleblower who was asked in 2001 to write vote hacking software to be used in DREs. Another is Brad Friedman, a tireless investigative blogger and creator of Bradblog.com, an excellent clearinghouse for election fraud information. Both are featured in the excellent, terrifying documentary Murder, Spies & Voting Lies: the Clint Curtis Story. You can see my review of it here (you can buy the movie and find out more about it at Votinglies.com).
America’s corporate media has done a woeful, shameful job reporting this issue that goes to the very heart of our democracy and our identity and reputation as a free nation. A few nights ago, a major channel finally did a long, in-depth story about election fraud, featuring interviews with Curtis and Friedman. The channel? Al-Jazeera English. You can watch the entire story here (part 1 & part 2).
I’ve talked to a lot of serious progressives who refuse to believe that election fraud could decide the election. But there is a very real chance it could. I checked VerifiedVoting.org, which lists what voting systems are used in which states and the makers of their voting machines, and compared it with the electoral map at RealClearPolitics.com. The contested states of Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Florida use a mix of paper ballots and DREs without paper verification. Nevada uses DREs with paper and Colorado uses a mix of DREs with and without paper. That’s 133 electoral college votes that could be flipped to decide the election.
To find out how to protect your vote, check out Bradblog.com or these other sites:
Videothevote.org
Votersunite.org
Voteraction.org
Velvetrevolution.us
Standingforvoters.org
And remember to bring your video camera to the polls to record any dirty tricks.
Don’t think for a second that this couldn’t happen.
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This protective law for their property puts them above the constitutional rights of Americans to vote and have their vote counted.
Why?
If we let them, they'll steal this election. Insist on a paper ballot. Report any problems OF ANY SORT at polling places, and lobby your state elected officials for mail in ballots (which, in Oregon, can also be handed in in person to election offices).
Obama 2008!!!
(See an article at Salon.com about a week ago which describes just how, techinically, someone can do this.)
WHY DON'T WE HAVE LAWS (CONGRESS?) WHICH BRING ANY VOTING MACHINE UNDER FEDERAL JURISDICTION? (But, really, why risk it? Why have voting machines at all?)
Where is the Congress in this?
This is why McCain is running fervently from one state to the other so that when they steal this election by way of electoral fraud through these voiting machines, then McCain can try to blame his fraudulent win on the fact of a week of campaigning. Give me a break, please.
Until Americans decide to stand up and not accept this type of voter disenfranchisement, there will never have to be another fair election in this country.
As your youtube review of 'Murder, Spies & Voting Lies: the Clint Curtis Story' shows, it only takes a criminal mind with the power to order the criminal deed.
Paper must be a requirement. I am glad to see that this issue is gaining attention.
It's a travesty.
I voted today in Dallas, Texas on a paperless machine. I wonder how my vote was actually counted.
Mike Connell (Smartech Corp and many other companies) is someone everyone should read about. He's been rigging for years. And guess what? He's working for John McCain now. This election will be rigged, there is no doubt about it. Why isn't Mike Connell in jail for his past crimes is beyond my comprehension.
I had mentioned Stephen Spoonamore in an earlier post. Here is an article about his recent actions taken against vote rigging. (sorry for the long messy link)
http://thejournal.epluribusmedia.net/index.php/state-news/ohio-news/200-ohio-cyber-security-expert-says-2004-kingpin-attack-benefited-bush
why aren't we using paper and pencil?
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that information about daily recalibrating touch voting machines that flip the voters' choices is pretty scary - the UN can't help us if the vote is already programmed to choose a candidate
why aren't we using paper and pencil?
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Obama/Biden 08
Are the votes that are logged lost? What happens to the data?
What do the machines need to be recalibrated so much?
How do we know that no votes have been lost or inaccurately recorded?