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Honest, verifiable elections- Who will go on record objecting to that? And who can seriously say that's what we have now, with most votes being cast or counted on proven unreliable, easily hackable electronic voting machines? What's wrong with making paper ballots available to every Citizen who wants one to vote on, all ballots counted by hand in the local precincts, results posted for all to see and record? At worst, Op Scan machines need to have open source code, publicly-accountable testing results and an unbroken public chain of custody.
Diebold and the other big company machines have been repeatedly shown to be unreliable and easily hackable, and states are starting to decertify them.
http://www.electiondefensealliance.org
http://www.blackboxvoting.org
http://www.bradblog.com
The fact that 81% of the New Hampshire Primary ballots were run thru these machines is reason enough to have no confidence in this primary.
Add to that the fact that SEVEN polls days before the election showed Clinton with 28-34% and Obama with 35-42%- Avg 38.3% Obama 30% Clinton, what are people to think?http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5530
Plus the exit polls, which are famously reliable and used world-wide to catch fraud also showed Obama winning, according to Chris Matthews of MSNBC
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5535
And to top it off, the totals for the hand-counted paper ballots don't match the machine-counted totals
http://www.legitgov.org/nh_machine_vs_paper.html
There's a lot of speculation going on about what happened, including the possibility of electoral fraud- all we need to do to put an end to the speculation about electoral fraud is count all the ballots, by hand, in public- it would be over in several hours at the most, I bet, with all the volunteers likely to turn out for it. Then, everyone can go on speculating about all the other reasons the polls were so off, without raising the ugly specter of Electoral Fraud- which the corporate media talking heads aren't doing anyway, despite the fact that millions of the People are.
Until then, how can people be expected to have confidence the stated primary results are correct, and not due to "machine error" or even fraud?
Diebold CEO O'Dell told Republicans in a 2003 election fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/0828-08.htm
The corporate media-blacked out GAO report showed it could've been stolen
http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d05956.pdf
And that election has been documented to be a fraud by the FreePress.org
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&domains=freepress.org&q=2004+election+&btnG=Search&sitesearch=freepress.org
and by RFK in Rolling Stone click here
click here
and people in OH were even convicted of malfeasance
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4071.
Who's against counting the New Hampshire Ballots by hand? Let's make the "conspiracy theories" a laughing stock- unless the paper ballots total shows something much different than the Diebold machines, of course.
