Guardian: Rebooting voting in the US - a final word

[lady lib]

Rebooting voting in the US - a final word
By Kevin Anderson / Midterms 2006 05:58pm

Greg (Palast) didn't see the election being stolen by the electronic voting machines made by Diebold and Sequoia (now owned by Florida-based Smartmatic, which was founded by two Venezuelan engineers - another rabbit hole to go down). Greg saw the election being stolen, by Republicans, with insidious voter regulations and voter intimidation.

Now, depending on how you read all the myriad reports of irregularities, either enough people voted for Democrats to overcome the 5% of votes that were suppressed, or there might be other explanations. I've been reading everything I can for three days and checking sources in the US, and my tentative conclusion is: Yes, problems continue, but it was better than recent elections.
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This isn't to minimise the accusations nor dismiss them, but merely to add a bit of context. And, of course, the real problem isn't who commits vote fraud, it should be investigated regardless of party. The real impact is in damaging confidence with the outcome.

Now, back to the present. The best way to sum up the conduct of these elections is how a Mac friend of mine reviewed Windows XP when it came out: Doesn't suck much.

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/archives/2006/11/10/rebooting_voting_in_the_us_a_final_word.html#more

Blah, blah, blah, "Doesn't suck much" blah, blah, blah. There you have it.
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[MetaTrope]

1. Now that we "know" the ATM voting machines work as promised

There will be NO vote flipping with the 2008 election. Right? Right?

[lady lib]

2. Yes, of course that's right.

And we won't have any more of your sarcasm, MetaTrope. ;)

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