An exception to the corporate media blackout, CNN's Lou Dobbs has done a gallant job exposing the problems of electronic voting. A Robin Williams movie, Man of the Year, with the premise of an electronic voting machine affecting the elections, is due to open this week. "Hacking Democracy", the HBO blockbuster three years in the making, is scheduled to air a few days before the elections and guaranteed to give many people nightmares. In July, I asked "Can we really afford to sit back and wait for someone else to 'fix' our democracy?" While it won't be easy to turn this iceberg around, do we really have a choice but to try? We all need an 'aha' moment to jolt us into rethinking, reframing, and changing direction. If this isn't that moment, I don't know what is.
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Joan Brunwasser is a co-founder of Citizens for Election Reform (CER) which since 2005 existed for the sole purpose of raising the public awareness of the critical need for election reform. Our goal: to restore fair, accurate, transparent, secure elections where votes are cast in private and counted in public. Because the problems with electronic (computerized) voting systems include a lack of (more...)
