Reply #18: So who designed the ballot? It appears that, in L.A., it was Diebold who disenfranchised [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

94,000 independent voters by ballot design. ES&S is as bad as its brethren Diebold, if not worse (funded by a guy who gave a million dollars to the extremist 'christian' Chalcedon foundation, which touts the death penalty for homosexuals, among other things). And I'm sure they have lots of tricks up their sleeves for stealing votes one way, if another way fails or doesn't seem advisable at the time.

This is the first time I have ever felt suspicious about the GAO that the fix is in. I suspect that it is, on this one. And though election activists have cited the GAO report on the perils of electronic voting, which came out a year or two ago, I felt the report was tame, and understated the extraordinary peril we are in from these machines. Now the GAO is even tamer, and is ignoring the obvious about ES&S machines--they are wide open to tampering every step of the way. I think this was a political "hot potato" and it was possibly the Democrats, not the Bushites, who killed the real report, if that's what happened. The Democrats in Congress tabled this outrageous FL-13 vote "count" (un-count, or whatever you want to call it--18,000 'disappeared' votes in Democratic areas, in an election 'won' by the Republican by only 369 votes). Congress wouldn't touch it--the only body with the power to remedy it. And they're ALL elected (if that's what you want to call it) by non-transparent electronic voting machines and tabulators, run on "trade secret," proprietary programming code, owned by the likes of ES&S. There is hardly a one of them--Dem or Repub--who can prove that he or she was actually elected.

And our Democrats are more vulnerable on this matter than Bushites. Everyone expects Bushites to steal elections, and the Bushites really don't care if they do. They abandoned democracy some time ago. But the Democrats! That would truly be a scandal, if it turned out that nutso rightwing billionaire Howard Ahmanson and his buds at parent company Diebold are picking our candidates and our 'winners.' The Dems have been more than skittish on this subject from the beginning. It struck ne as jaw-dropping, mind-bogglingly shocking when I first learned they all voted for this egregiously non-transparent, rightwing-controlled voting system.

It's the hottest potato in the land--non-transparent vote counting--in addition to the war that no one owns (and closely related to it, I think).

Peace Patriot, signing off. Sorry to interrupt the only real news worth reading--what kickass election integrity groups are accomplishing around the country. You have to read between the lines quite a bit, but it's there--the rumble of revolt!

Viva la revolución!