Reply #52: "...got to do something about both Diebold and various GOP SoS's." [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

It isn't just GOPers who have been corrupted by the billion dollar electronic voting machine boondoggle. THAT's the problem. Ever wonder about the Democratic Party leadership's mind-boggling SILENCE on Bushite companies owning and controlling the vote tabulation with SECRET, PROPRIETARY programming code? HOW COULD THEY HAVE BEEN SILENT ABOUT THIS?

Check out this bipartisan hogfest at the Beverly Hilton last week--a week of fun, sun and high-ending shopping for our election officials from around the country, sponsored by Diebold, ES&S and Sequoia. It'll burn your eyeballs!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x380340

Lavish lobbying perks, future job offers, the heady power of brokering big business deals (that's what our vote has become--a big business deal), and the temptations of lording and ladying it, as "experts" and "professionals," over the dumb voters, who haven't a clue any more how their votes are counted. These are the ways the Bushites have utterly corrupted our election system--and the Democrats were suckers for it.

Bush's "pod people" in Congress poured $4 billion (of OUR money) into the states--to be paid to the major Bush donors and supporters who cobbled up a series of extremely insecure, hackable and unreliable electronic voting systems to be inflicted on the public at maximum expense (including the expense of long term "servicing" contracts), with NO requirement of a "paper trail" (let alone a paper ballot backup) and NO prohibition on "trade secret" vote counting software.

These companies turn around and donate large amounts of money to Bush/Cheney, and even run their campaigns for them (Diebold!).

And the Democrats say nothing. NOTHING!

I'm a lifelong Democrat tearing my hair out here. How could my party do this to me?

Corruption. Lousy, venal corruption. We need a BIG BROOM, friends. And it's not just the GOP that needs their house cleaned.