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Monday, October 30, 2006

Time For A Change


Stay the Course?

You have to hope that enough people finally see through the rhetoric driven posturing that's been masquerading as leadership the last few years. But then again, I was sure two years ago that everybody finally seen "the emperor had no clothes" and I was proved horribly wrong.

And if that's not enough cause for sleepless nights, these 20 Amazing Facts About Voting in the USA should be. Just a few to consider for a pre-Halloween scare:

  • 80% of all votes in America are counted by only two companies: Diebold and ES&S.
  • There is no federal agency with regulatory authority or oversight of the U.S. voting machine industry.
  • The vice-president of Diebold and the president of ES&S are brothers.
  • The chairman and CEO of Diebold is a major Bush campaign organizer and donor who wrote in 2003 that he was "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
  • Diebold's new touch screen voting machines have no paper trail of any votes. In other words, there is no way to verify that the data coming out of the machine is the same as what was legitimately put in by voters.
  • 30% of all U.S. votes are carried out on unverifiable touch screen voting machines with no paper trail.
  • All -- not some -- but all the voting machine errors detected and reported in Florida went in favor of Bush or Republican candidates.
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    1 Comments:

    That was BOTH of us two years ago, John. I still haven't picked my jaw up off the floor after the last election.
    Anonymous Anonymous, at 10:53 PM  

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