OpEdNews » Lever Lawsuit Gears Up; "Stealing America" Premiers Aug. 1st

Software-driven optical scanners or DREs are no way to run a democratic election. In 50% Percent of Sequoia Voting Machines Flawed, Kim Zetter reports on NY's statewide failure rate of Sequoia's optical scanners, the ones most NY counties are using as Ballot Marking Devices only for 2008 but will be used to count all our votes in 2009, unless we stop them. See also NY Loves Its Levers as New Systems Fail. New Yorkers are now discovering what the rest of the country has always known: software driven systems are unreliable. New York could have known: the evidence is there for the reading.

Notwithstanding that evidence exposing the "crap" voting vendors have sold across the nation, New York continues to proceed with Eyes Wide Shut. We must and should provide accessible voting devices for those with special needs enabling everyone to vote independently. But we must not permit these flawed, unreliable and vulnerable-to-undetectable-tampering optical scanners to be used to count our vote.

Election Issues Committee Chairman for the Pinellas County, FL Democratic Executive Committee. I want to put a link to your site on our homepage, and I'm working on getting permission to do so.
GitarChrisElection Issues Committee Chairman for the Pinellas County, FL Democratic Executive Committee. I want to put a link to your site on our homepage, and I'm working on getting permission to do so.

The Great Public Awakening

What with the NY Times OpEd piece this week along with this new film, perhaps the sleeping American public will finally awaken to the peril of computerized voting machines.

The best if not strangest part of all this is the ignorance of the Democratic Party. A State Senator gets his vote flipped before his eyes, and John Kerry's campaign didn't want the news to get out?

The silence of Democratic Party leadership is deafening. From the top down, the Democratic leadership seem to be helping the Republicans in the so far successful efforts to disenfranchise Democratic Voters. It is an outrage, but I've come to expect it from Nancy Pelosi, et. al.

In fact, the insouciance of the Democrat leadership is a greater betrayal than the usurptation itself. Bush and Cheney are not the worst, because you expect it from them.

The Obama campaign seems strangly silent, as well.

by GitarChris (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 131 comments) on Friday, July 18, 2008 at 11:24:09 AM