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    Repiglican Roast

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    I'm furious about my squandered nation.

    Tuesday, November 14, 2006

    More Vote Flipping and Erasing by Republican Controlled Voting Systems.

    Other than another tampered election, here's the issue.
    The PRIVATIZATION of voting.

    Since 1980 right wing extremists and their republican light friends in the democratic party have pushed for privatization of any and all government functions. This has been wildly destructive to the American way f life, removing accountability and ratcheting up costs for services. And it has also left us with an electoral system in the hands of private corporations.

    There is no way for a bipartisan group to verify whether or not these machines are fixed to throw elections, though all evidence suggests they are, as their makers and sellers claim the computer code that runs them is private - proprietary - and not to be disturbed by election officials looking to run a clean and fair election.

    What could be more undemocratic than that?

    [...]

    Among all the reports logged last Tuesday by election-protection hotline numbers, the most serious complaints were from voters in Florida's Sarasota County, where the vagaries of the electronic voting process may have determined the outcome of the election. As a result, Democrat Christine Jennings has not conceded, even though Republican Vern Buchanan has already declared victory.

    In Sarasota County, 18,000 voters -- fully 13 percent of people who voted -- did not cast a ballot for either Buchanan or Jennings, a huge "undervote" when compared to the adjacent counties, where the percentage of voters not casting a ballot in the same race was about 2 percent. Some election officials have suggested that those voters in Sarasota intentionally chose not to cast a vote in that race, as a protest against an ugly campaign. But the unusually high undervote rate compared to the neighboring counties makes that highly unlikely: "The idea that this is some kind of protest vote simply makes no sense," says Mark Lindeman, a political scientist at Bard College.

    Many Sarasota County voters complained to election officials and watchdog groups about the ES&S iVotronic machine, which shows voters a review screen to check over their ballot before submitting it, but leaves no paper trail.
    [...]

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