36 POINTS!

They don't get along with anybody, not even themselves.

The GOP trades short term political gains with their base for long term party extinction.

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...they own all the voting machines.

Last fall, ES&S quietly purchased Diebold, giving them 80% of the market for electronic voting machings. And it's not just the un-auditable vote-counting; they now also own polling place check-in software (electronic pollbooks), voter registration software and vote-by-mail authentication software.

http://www.benalexandra.com/cool_stuff/diebold_ess.htm

This link has very scary information, all with appropriate citations, regarding what could easily be a mass-manipulation of our elections.



When you buy a pack of gum, you get a receipt. Why is there no receipt/audit trail on our votes? I can only think of one reason.

clear sailing to continue fudging the voting books. If the corruption were so stacked against fair voting practices by republican operatives, then why wasn't John McCain elected? I would think that the PTB would have pulled every trick in the book to avert an Obama win.



from BlackBoxVoting:



SOLUTIONS:


WHAT CAN CITIZENS DO TO SOLVE PROBLEMS?



We may have just discovered Einstein's theory of democracy:


We the People = Us. Download the Black Box Voting Citizens Tool Kit. It contains 20 modules, each just a few pages, bullet points. Pick any module that interests you. Choose one action and see it to its completion.

There is no bill, legislation, public official or citizen leader who can keep elections fair and honest. Citizens are the missing ingredient.

View elections oversight as a fundamental civil right -- one to guard carefully and fight for when necessary. Civil rights are not a good place for compromises. Insist upon the fundamental civil right to oversee our own elections, fight for this, do what's needed to restore election oversight rights when they are taken away.



<http://www.blackboxvoting.org/presskit.html#solutions>

...for the result we got? Twenty million? Thirty? The Republicans underestimated support for Obama and lack thereof for McCain/Palin, and 'failed' to rig the electronic voting machines 'enough'. Bet they don't make that mistake again.

They've already been caught registering voters who thought they were just signing petitions. Getting total registered voter numbers higher gives them more room to fudge.

This is one conspiracy theory that MUST be pursued until the American people can trust the election process.

Electronic systems can be easily hacked as its been shown before. Why can't we employ a system where we can easily fill out our voting choices such as lottery sheets and print out a receipt of our VOTING CHOICES printed in TWO PERFORATED TICKET PARTS thats clearly marked or color-coded as to which ticket receipt needs to be dropped into the voting box retaining the other part as your own copy. Voting box tickets can then be loaded into a hopper and scanned like banks do with paper currency. Each ticket will have its own unique tracking Bar Code. The infrastructure exists today. We have lottery terminals saturated throughout the country.

It is probably not desirable to have printed voting records that are associated with any individual person. The best solution IMO, if we must use electronic voting machines, is to have those machines print out a paper optical ballot of the type already used, so that the voter can verify the selections are correct, then insert the paper ballot into the optical scanning machine. This provides electronic tabulation, voter verification, and a paper trail.

...there are several ways to create an practical audit trail, but the corporation that makes the machines chooses not to do so. That's very troubling. If I had this responsibility, I would put voter confidence as the top indicator of success.

... that was trackable on an individual basis. Enter your SSN and password to see your vote in the data base. Then each American could verify that his/her vote was properly counted. This would be incredibly simple to do for any reasonably competent data base analyst.

It's too easy to abuse. The secret ballot has a long history and a database like that essentially destroys that secrecy.

black, brown, yellow, you name it--Dems would win virtually every election. They have the power. The white racist vote in this country is dwindling. A coalition of progressive whites and minorities could make a difference.

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