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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 03:58 PM
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Your electronic vote in the 2010 election has just been bought
http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2009/3543

by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
September 24, 2009

Unless US Attorney General Eric Holder intervenes, your electronic vote in 2010 will probably be owned by the Republican-connected ES&S Corporation. With 80% ownership of America's electronic voting machines, ES&S could have the power to shape America's future with a few proprietary keystrokes.

ES&S has just purchased the voting machine division of the Ohio-based Diebold, whose role in fixing the 2004 presidential election for George W. Bush is infamous. (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2004/03/diebolds-political-machine)

Critics of the merger hope Holder will rescind the purchase on anti-trust grounds.

But only a transparent system totally based on hand-counted paper ballots, with universal automatic voter registration, can get us even remotely close to a reliable vote count in the future.
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 04:00 PM
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1. Let's start deluging Holder with e-mails and calls. He's been pretty good
so far, IMO...
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gateley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 04:27 PM
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2. Just sent an e-mail - thanks for the heads up. Have you posted this in
the DU voter reform forum?
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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-25-09 05:06 PM
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3. didn't know there was such a thing
Thanks!
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