HELP COUNTER THE GLITCH EXCUSE

One of the communication problems we face is the vast majority of people are not technologically savvy and easily accept the glitch excuse for machine problems. Several of us worked on a simple explanation that we can pass to and through our friends and at blogs so we can start to educate the public about the matter. The final is here:

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<i>"Voting machines use the same software, so if one machine has a glitch they're all faulty. Think of it like an auto recall. Since isolated machine problems have been identified and reported by news outlets, problems exist in other machines running the same software. University analyses support this suspicion and have tied voting anomalies to specific voting machines in several regions of the country. The bottom line is in certain areas voting results have been as statistically improbable as winning the lotto twice."</i>

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Please send this message along to and through your friends via email (ask them to forward), and at blogs, with whatever brief intro you need, and ask them to pass this along so we can start to educate people about why the glitch answer doesn't fly. I don't know the protocol for doing something like this, but would guess it's to send it along and then kick the thread...??? (I'm relatively new...)

We also have some other brief statements under way that can be used for other purposes at this thread, if anyone wants to contribute or help to edit:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=203&topic_id=93359&mesg_id=93359