America's media just made vote rigging easier

[Stevepol]

The latest (November 2012) issue of Harper's magazine has one of the best articles I've ever seen on vote-rigging via electronic voting machines. The article, by Victoria Collier, touches on the history of election fraud, then gives a run-down of all the sordid events that have effectively destroyed our democracy by privatizing the vote counting using unverifiable, easily compromised machines to count our votes. I bought a copy of the article ("How To Rig an Election&quot , the cover story for this month's edition, and I highly recommend it.

Here's a shorter article by the same author on a similar theme: how the news media are complicit in the rigging.

http://truth-out.org/news/item/12213-americas-media-just-made-vote-rigging-easier

Here's the lead into the article in truthout:

Stealing your vote is easier than ever now that the media has decided it can't afford the exit polling that helped track irregular ballot counts in more than a third of the states. Here's why it's important, and what you can do

The truthout article is a good one, but the Harper's article by the same author is a gem. Don't miss reading it.

[GeorgeGist]

1. Junk media doesn't want the truth ...

And the profits are bigger without it!

[Doctor_J]

2. Has it just dawned on you that they're part of the corruption?

[ProudProgressiveNow]

3. Link for longer excerpt

n 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), offering states $3.9 billion in subsidies to modernize their election administration and equipment, purportedly in response to Florida’s hanging-chad fiasco of 2000. HAVA mandated that every polling place provide at least one voting system that allowed disabled people to vote with the same “privacy and independence” accorded to nondisabled voters. Thanks to confusing language in HAVA itself, and even a misleading report issued by the Congressional Research Service, one might easily assume that the mandate called for the purchase of DRE machines. In this way, the blind and visually impaired were unwittingly used as pawns to advance the agenda of the voting-machine industry. One election supervisor claims that Diebold went so far as to send him threatening letters after he sought out less expensive alternatives to service the disabled, even when these machines were compatible with Diebold’s systems.

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2012/10/hbc-90008943

[Stevepol]

5. Thanks. Missed that.

n/t

[sandyshoes17]

4. This is what happens

When the money is all concentrated to the top. They own the media, the government, the voting machines.etc. If they win they will have it all. This is why it is so important for our Democracy, to fight back. We need to start electing reps in office who will start tearing some of this stuff down, it will not be easy.