Another Stolen Election: (Berkeley Daily Planet commentary)

[The Straight Story]

Another Stolen Election: By JAMES K. SAYRE
COMMENTARY (11-09-04)

The exit polls that showed a sweeping victory for Sen. Kerry on Nov. 2 were right. Unfortunately, the 2004 presidential election was cleanly stolen by Bush & Co. How, you say? With the help of Diebold, ES&S, Sequoia and SAIC, four interlocked secretive right-wing electronic voting machine manufacturers. We have entrusted the most important election task, that of actually counting and tabulating the vote totals to extremist organizations with secret proprietary vote-counting computer software with no auditable paper trail for hand recounts. How very convenient, how very clean, how very slick and with all the evidence of election rigging is buried deep on their computer hard drives.

Sen. Kerry won a landslide victory by between two million and five million votes. The pre-election public opinion polls pointed to a large and growing Kerry election day majority and the election day exit polls also indicated a Kerry victory. Unfortunately, theocratic extremely right-wing computer election machine manufacturing corporations were in charge of “counting” the votes of millions and millions of Americans. Some how, a few million Kerry votes didn’t get counted and a few million bogus Bush votes showed up in the final election tallies and voila, a Bush “victory.”

Democracy in 21st century America has been kidnapped and destroyed by extreme right-wing control of the new secret computerized electronic vote counting systems. Verifiable hand-counted paper ballots are the only way to restore legitimate elections in America.

Just search the Internet for any terms such as “black box voting,” “Max Cleland,” “Diebold,” “Sequoia,” “SE&S,” “Greg Palast,” “election fraud” or “election theft” and you will find a wealth of information to help arm you in the coming fight to restore legitimate free elections and democracy in our country.

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The Republican Party will never lose another presidential election as long as we allow their corporate buddies to “count” our votes in secret.



http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=11-09-04&storyID=20055

[alevensalor]

1. Oh he nailed that one right on the head.

This country will never see a fair election as long as there is electronic voting. It's too easy to hack, too easy to corrupt, and too easy to screw up in general.

I am a programmer, and I approve this message.

~A!

[Raster]

2. We have, in effect, outsourced our elections to the republican party.

We go to a banking machine, it handles our transactions, usually with a high degree of security and accuracy. It also gives us a paper receipt with which we can alert our financial institution if errors arise. I've been using ATMs since their inception, and those suckers are as secure as the day is long. Contrast that with the black box voting machines. Accuracy and reliability are the exception, not the rule.

This is the number one issue in the country today. If we don't deal with the flim-flam electoral infrastructure, we will never have a clean election in this country again. Anyone who tells you we don't need a verifiable paper trail has ulterior motives.

Oh, and I don't care if Jesus Christ himself told you to throw the election. Stealing is stealing. You can delude yourself all you want with visions of mandates from a higher power. Election fraud and theft are just that. Fraud and theft.

[Greylyn58]

3. WOW!!!

He was dead on with everything he said. Man, that was a good piece.

:wow: